Stratigeraphic excavation at south part of Tepe Sagzabad, Qazvin plain

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Mohammad Hossein Azizi Kharanaghi ¹ , Reza Naseri ²

1 - Ph.D. Student in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of Archaeology, Zabol University, Zabol, Iran.

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

Keywords: Qazvin Plain, Stratigraphy, Iron age, relative chronology, Tape Sagzabad, Late Bronze Age,

Abstract :

Trying excavation of department of Archaeology of university of Tehran in Qazvin plain at Tape Sagzabad carried out in autumn 2009 and two small Trenches (7&8) with stratigraphic aims at south part of the site were excavated. Unfortunately, cultural layers of Tape Sagzabad have been badly damaged, due to illegal excavation, but the south part of the site seemed to be safer from the destruction. The cultural layers of this part especially in Trench 7 presented logical and regularly cultural sequence. In this Trench the evidence of historical period, Iron Age and late Bronze Age was found, but because of the small excavated area of excavation (just 2×2 m. dimension) we could not find any structure. However, the pottery evidence of the Trenches provided the possible offers of relative chronology of this part of the site. The thickness of the cultural layers of this part, especially in Tranche 7, presents a large extent of the site in the south part showing the necessity of determination excavation for the Tape Sagzabad. This paper focused on typology, classification, presentation and comparison of the different kinds of the potteries comming from of those two stratigraphic Trenches and we will try to present the relative chronology of south part of Tape Sagzabad.