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Alibaigi S, Mohammadi Qasrian S. Who Burned the Prehistoric Village of Ghabristan in Fourth Millennium BC?. Archaelogy 2024; 4 (1) : 3
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1- Faculty member of Razi University, Kermanshah , sadjadalibaigi@gmail.com
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This research adopts an analytical-interpretive approach to explore whether the emergence of the 4th millennium BC Gray Ware culture at Tepe Ghabristan happened all at once or it developed as a result of local pottery making innovations. The findings of archaeological excavation at Tepe Ghabristan and Tepe Sialk attest to a break in the cultural sequence of the central Iranian Plateau around 3700 BC, when the local ceramics of these sites were replaced with a Gray Ware ceramic tradition. This Gray Ware tradition lacks any clear connection to the local assemblages and represents no cultural continuity in the region. The 4th millennium BC Gray Ware was not a local phenomenon, and it apparently represents a widespread but transient phenomenon in western Iran, which coincided with the development of the Uruk Gray Ware throughout southwest Asia e.g. Syria, Turkey, and Iraq. The appearance of this pottery at Tepe Ghabristan and Tepe Sialk succeeded conflagration and violent conflicts, which probably occurred around 3700 BC or shortly after this date. Therefore, given the contemporaneity of these events at Tepe Ghabristan and Tepe Sialk, it is not reasonable to consider these developments as the local cultural processes in the region. It is unlikely that the conflagration at Tepe Ghabristan with the bodies of the people who were killed therein, as well as the unfortunate events that happened at Tepe Sialk, was a simple coincident. Representing similar and simultaneous events that occurred during the emergence of the new cultural materials, these occasions suggest the presence at Tepe Ghabristan and Sialk of an exotic element associated with the expansion of the prehistoric culture of northern Mesopotamia into western central Iranian Plateau.
Article number: 3
Keywords: Fourth Millennium BC., Grey Ware, Central Plateau, Tapeh Ghabristan, cultural discontinuities.
Type of Study: Original Research Article |
Subject:
Pre Historic
Received: 2024/04/3 | Accepted: 2024/06/13 | Published: 2024/06/20
Received: 2024/04/3 | Accepted: 2024/06/13 | Published: 2024/06/20
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