The Appearance of Plastic Images in Pottery and its Relation to Cultural Changes Occurred with the Transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age at Iran

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Hamidreza Valipour ¹ , Iman Mostafapour ² , Hossein Davoudi ³ , Ahmad Chaychi AmirKhiz ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Islamic Azad University, Abhar Branch, Abhar, Iran.
2 - M.A. Student in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
3 - M.A. Student in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Faculty Member of ICAR, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2023-07-14 Accepted : 2023-07-14 Published : 2009-08-23

Keywords: Classification, Typology, Cultural changes, Iron age, pottery, Bronze Age, Plastic Images,

Abstract :

The first step in any study of archaeological materials is, necessarily, ordering the material into some sort of classificatory system. Therefore this article is analysis of plastic image in pottery on the basis of ceramic classification. The classification of ceramics into meaningful types is the first step in using ceramic data in archaeological analysis. The next and ultimately more important step is to use those data to answer questions about cultural changes at the past. Study of cultural changes is one of the important aims in archaeological researches. Changes in technology, decorations, forms and organization of ceramic production have, in turn, been used to societies. This article outlines one of the decoration types in the pottery and stylistic analysis to study of the cultural changes during the bronze and iron age at Iran. The aim of this article is the study of plastic images in the pottery and the origin of this technique at Iran.