A Preliminary Report on the Excavation in Late Neolithic Site of Maya Tepe; Buin Zahra, Qazvin

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Mohammad Reza Rezaei Kallaj ¹ (CHTO of Qazvin Province, Qazvin, Iran.)
Hossein Davoudi ² (M.A. Student in Archaeology, Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.)
Ebrahim Sadeghi ³ (B.A. in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Islamic Azad University: Abhar Branch, Abhar, Iran.)

Received: 2023-07-13 Accepted : 2023-07-13 Published : 2010-08-23

Keywords: Typology, Qazvin Plain, Ceramic, Comparative Chronology, Maya tepe, late Neolithic,

Abstract :

Nowadays, constructive activities such as dam construction, villages and cities development and etc. are some of the main human factors in destroying many of archaeological sites. By the same token, during road construction in Buin Zahra- Sagz Abad, transit axis widening project in Qazvin province, southern parts of Maya tepe which have been located in road boundary would be destroyed. Therefore, urgent excavation of mentioned site was implanted in fall 1389 by an archaeological expert of cultural heritage organization of Qazvin city. Maya tepe is located in 5/5 km of the west of Buin Zahra City and in northern side of Buin Zahra- Sagz Abad axis and is an important site due to its particular location which is near to prehistoric sites of Qazvin plain such as Charbone, Zagheh, Ghabrestan and Sagz Abad. During the excavation in 10 trenches 2×2 meters and with preliminary researches about obtained results specially ceramic typology, within a semi-permanent settlement pattern, this site has a culture from late Neolithic I and early late Neolithic II (end of the first half of the sixth millennium BC), whose similar cultures in Qazvin plain have been identified in Charbone and Ebrahim Abad sites. In this paper, findings and results of an urgent excavation are presented and ultimately a comparative chronology of Maya Tepe is presented.