Dinkha Tepe 40 Years Later [in Persian]

Citation:

Gabriel H. Pizzorno. 2010. “Dinkha Tepe 40 Years Later [in Persian].” In Culture of Dinkha Tepe (Ushnu): Collected Papers, Pp. 1-20. Tehran: Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization.
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Dinkha Tepe 40 Years Later [in Persian]

Abstract:

It has been a little over 40 years since the Hasanlu Project conducted its final season of excavation at Dinkha Tepe. At the time, in 1968, the archaeology of northwestern Iran had only recently begun to be explored and our knowledge of the cultures of the Ushnu–Solduz valley was very limited. The archaeological evidence uncovered at Dinkha Tepe, in particular, considerably augmented our understanding of the cultures that inhabited the Ushnu–Solduz valley in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. Furthermore, the site has figured prominently in some of the most important debates in the archaeology of the first and second millennia BCE in the Near East, the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in western Iran, the characterisation of the Khabur ware horizon, and the extension and nature of trade and exchange networks being the most salient examples. The articles compiled in this volume are the major publications to date resulting from archaeological work carried out at Dinkha Tepe. They reflect the richness of the site’s potential and its importance for Iranian archaeology. These publications, however, are limited in scope. Despite the relevance of the site, a substantial amount of the information collected during the excavations at Dinkha remains unpublished and un-analysed. For the past three years I have been working with these materials at the Penn Museum. Based on this research, in the following sections of this introductory chapter I have attempted to give a more in-depth description of the site, its surroundings, and the excavations conducted there than has thus far been published.

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