Uruk Pottery, Based on Strip Survey of South Abu Fandowah Site, Khuzestan, Southwestern Iran

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Aytakin Habibi ¹ , Mohammad Karami ²

1 - M.A. in Archaeology, Department of History and Archaeology, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Research Department of National Museum of Iran, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2023-07-22 Accepted : 2023-07-22 Published : 2009-02-19

Keywords: pottery, Uruk, Abu Fandowah, Strip Survey,

Abstract :

Uruk period (3200-3000 BC), the era of civilization in southern Mesopotamia and Iran, is recognizable by material culture production changes that one of them was large quantity of plain pottery instead of before painted tradition. During the late Uruk period, in southwestern Iran, some settled sites flourished and became large centers especially in Susiana plain. Choghamish, Susa and Abu Fandowah were most important among them with more than 15 Ha. We would like to focus on Uruk potteries of one of the mentioned sites, which is Abu Fandowah, next to the Susa city in the Northern Khuzestan- southwestern Iran. It is surveyed and excavated in year 2006 but we will discuss about southern complex of above site that is surveyed by Strip method. We separated Uruk pottery into three main categories and tried to introduce most of Uruk wares rim forms, Beveled Rim Bowls and other decorations which are observable on the body sherds.