Late Bronze Age at Tepe Sagzabad in the Base of Pottery Evidence

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Mohammad Hossein Azizi Kharanaghi ¹ , Kamalaldin Niknami ² , Nastaran Moradi ³

1 - Deputy Office for Cultural Heritage, Historical – Cultural Site Deputy.
2 - Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
3 - M.A. in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2023-07-11 Accepted : 2023-07-11 Published : 2011-02-20

Keywords: Late Bronze Age, Tepe Sagzadad, Monochrome Pottery, polychrome potteries, Urmia Ware, Ceramic Maket,

Abstract :

The Late Bronze age in Tepe Sagzabad without any relationship with previous pre-historic cultures in the region had been appeared suddenly in late second millennium BC. Handmade Monochrome and polychrome potteries (Uremia ware) is cultural indicator in this Period. Our aimed to Trying Deportment of Archaeology, university of Tehran excavation in fall of 2009 at Tepe Sagzabad was recognition of cultural Layers of south part of this site and 3 different Trenches (6, 7 and 8) were dug. Trench 6 had different cultural Layers including: Iron Age I, Late Bronze age and Late Chalcolithic period. Between these Finds, Monochrome and polychrome potteries from Late Bronze age were remarkable. This Paper will focus on Typology, classification and introduces different kind of Late Bronze age pottery motif.