Return to search

Tepe Ghabristan: A Chalcolithic tell buried in alluvium.

No / The Chalcolithic tell of Ghabristan in northwest Iran is now buried by alluvium and a magnetometer survey of the tell and its surroundings was undertaken to reveal any features under this cover. After the
abandonment of the tell in the late third millennium BC it was used as an Iron Age cemetery by inhabitants of the neighbouring tell of Sagzabad. The magnetometer data show a related irregularly shaped
channel that is also considered to be of Iron Age date.Its shallow burial depth, compared with the thick
sedimentary layers underneath, indicates a considerable slowdown of alluviation rates in the second millennium BC, possibly related to environmental changes. The survey also found evidence for undisturbed
buried building remains, most likely associated with copper workshops.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/4024
Date January 2007
CreatorsSchmidt, Armin R., Fazeli, H.
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, No full-text in the repository

Page generated in 0.002 seconds