A Reassessment of the Chronology of Konar Sandal North, Jiroft, SE Iran

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Nasir Eskandari ¹

1 - Doctorant Langues, Histoire et Civilisations des Mondes Anciens, Université Lumière Lyon 2.

Received: 2023-07-09 Accepted : 2023-07-09 Published : 2013-02-19

Keywords: chronology, South East Iran, Halil Rud Basin, Konar Sandal North, mud-brick platform,

Abstract :

This paper presents a reassessment of the chronology of Konar Sandal North- one of the largest excavated sites of Jiroft plain in Halil Valley- based on comparative analysis of the materials of KSN with two of the excavated sites of Halil Basin, Konar Sandal South and Tepe Yahya. The Halil Rud Archaeological Project (2002-2008) showed that the site consists two different settlements, lower occupational settlement and upper Ziggurat type monumental mud-brick platform. It has been argued that KSN is not contemporary with 3rd millennium urban center of KSS and proposed that the lower settlement of KSN cab be dated back to early 2nd millennium BC and superimposed platforms can be assigned to first half of 1st millennium, sometime between 9th -7th Centuries BC.