A Unique Painted Sherd from the Mid-Sixth Millennium BCE Neolithic Context of Northeastern Iran
Depicting animal motifs on pottery vessels of prehistoric cultures of the Iranian Plateau was begun as early as the turn of the seventh millennium BCE in the lowland Susiana Plain of southwestern Iran. Such motifs appeared in the Neolithic of northeastern Iran, known as Chakhmaq Culture, as early as...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2023
|
| In: |
Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2023, Volume: 86, Issue: 2, Pages: 92-101 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Iran
/ Iran (Antiquity)
/ Iran (Antiquity) (Ost)
/ Stone age
|
| IxTheo Classification: | KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Depicting animal motifs on pottery vessels of prehistoric cultures of the Iranian Plateau was begun as early as the turn of the seventh millennium BCE in the lowland Susiana Plain of southwestern Iran. Such motifs appeared in the Neolithic of northeastern Iran, known as Chakhmaq Culture, as early as the early sixth millennium BCE. During a stratigraphic excavation at a Neolithic site, dated to ca. 7000-5000 BCE, in the Shahroud Plain of northeastern Iran, a body sherd was found depicting a scene of mating goats rotating around the vessel. Regarding its early date, ca. 5650-5550 cal BCE, and its naturalistic way of representing the animal motifs, this sherd is unique among the contemporaneous Neolithic sites of the Iranian Plateau. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/724784 |