Archa¨Ologische Mitteilungen Aus Iran Und Turan
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DeutschesArcha¨ologisches Institut Eurasien-Abteilung Außenstelle Teheran Sonderdruck aus: Archa¨ologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan BAND 46 * 2014 DIETRICH REIMER VERLAG * BERLIN Deutsches Archa¨ologisches Institut Eurasien-Abteilung Außenstelle Teheran Archa¨ologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan Band 46 * 2014 DIETRICH REIMER VERLAG * BERLIN IV + 342 Seiten mit 201 Abbildungen, 39 Tabellen und 5 Karten Herausgeber: Svend Hansen und Mayke Wagner Redaktion: Judith Thomalsky und Nikolaus Boroffka WissenschaftlicherBeirat: Abbas Alizadeh (Chicago) David Braund (Exeter) Henri-PaulFrancfort (Nanterre) Ernie Haerinck(Ghent) StefanR.Hauser(Konstanz) Lorenz Korn (Bamberg) Stephan Kroll (Mu¨nchen) Michael Pfrommer (Trier) Susan Pollock (Berlin) Robert Rollinger (Innsbruck) Miroslav Salvini (Roma) Mitglieder des Deutschen Archa¨ologischen Instituts und Studenten der Altertumswissenschaften ko¨nnen die Archa¨ologischen Mitteilungenaus Iran und Turan zum Vorzugspreis von 53,20 a zuzu¨glich Versandkosten abonnieren. Bestellungen sind an die Schriftleitung zu richten.Studenten werden um Vorlage einer Studienbescheinigung gebeten. Die Beendigung des Studiumsist unverzu¨glich mitzuteilen. Redaktionsschluss ist der 31.M¨arz fu¨rden im folgendenJahr erscheinenden Band. Bei der Abfassungder Manuskripte sind die ,,Richtlinienfu¨rVero¨ffentlichungen der Außenstelle Teheran der Eurasien-Abteilung des Deutschen Archa¨ologischen Instituts‘‘ zu beachten, die unter http://www.dainst.org/index.php?id¼7490 in ihrer jeweils aktuellgu¨ltigen Formaufgerufen werden ko¨nnen. Die Redaktion beha¨lt sich vor, Manuskripte zu ku¨rzen. ° 2016 by DeutschesArcha¨ologisches Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung ISSN 1434-2758 Redaktion: Deutsches Archa¨ologisches Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung, Im Dol 2–6,D-14195 Berlin Satz,Druck undBindung:Beltz BadLangensalza GmbH,Neusta¨dter Straße 1–4,D-99947 BadLangensalza Kommissionsvertrieb: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, Berliner Straße 53,D-10713 Berlin Inhalt III Inhalt Aufsa¨tze HamedVahdati Nasab und GeoffreyA.Clark,The UpperPaleolithic of the Iranian Central Desert:the Delazian Site – aCase Study .............................. 1 OmranGharasian,LeilaPapolis und Hamide Fakhr-e Ghaemi,Qaleh Khan aSite in Northern Khorassan and the Neolithic of North Eastern Iranian Plateau ............... 21 MohammadEsmaeilEsmaeili Jelodar und SaeedZolghad,Central Zagros, Highland Fars, and Lowland, Susiana Sphere of Interactioninthe 5th Millennium BC.: Evidence from salvage excavation at Haji Jalil 2,Kuhrang, Iran ............................... 51 Massimo Vidale,DeboraVendemi undEdoardo Loliva, Uncertainty and errors in the Painted Buff Ware of Shahr-e Sukhte (Sistan,Iran) ......................... 71 KaiKaniuth, Die Bestattungen des Hu¨gels 4 von Dz˘arkutan................... 95 Mutin-Razzakov, Cultural contacts across the Hindu Kush in the early BronzeAge. Additional insights from Sarazm – Soundings 11–11A(Tajikistan) ....................... 123 Ruben Badalyan, Adam T. Smith, IanLindsay,Armine Harutyunyan,Alan Greene, Maureen Marshall, Belinda Monahan und RomanHovsepyan,mit Beitra¨gen von Kha- chatur Meliksetian, Ernst Pernicka und Samuel Haroutunian, APreliminary Report on the 2008, 2010,and 2011 Investigations of Project ArAGATS on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia . 149 AlirezaAskari Chaverdi,Pierfrancesco Callieriund Emad Matin, Tol-eAjori: a Monumental Gate of the Early Achaemenian period in the Persepolis Area. The 2014 excavation season of the Iranian-Italian project ‘‘From Palace to Town’’, with an appendixbyGian Pietro Basel- lo, Afragment of another inscribedglazed brick from Tol-e Ajori. .................. 223 MichaelFedorov, Money circulation in Central Asia under T¯ımu¯rand T¯ımu¯rids ......... 255 AlexandreTourovetz, The search for abetter organisation of the space and its use: apossible cause to explain the outbreak of the Achaemenian Architecture ................... 281 Mernoush Soroush,The Misrof‘Askar Mokram: Preliminary Report and Framework for Future Research ............˙ .................................. 299 Yaghesh Kazemi, Solar Considerations in Planning of Three Circular Cities in Ancient Persia ... 321 Buchbesprechungen: W. Roberts/C. P. Thornton (eds.), Archaeometallurgy in global perspective. Methods and syntheses (Springer, Heidelberg, New York 2014)(B. Helwing) ......................... 331 Nachruf Yuriy Fedorovich Buryakov. 1934–2015 (A. E. Berdimurodov) ................... 335 Vadim Nikolaevich Yagodin. 1932–2015 (A. D. Iskanderova) ................... 339 IV Inhalt Table of content Articles HamedVahdati Nasaband GeoffreyA.Clark,The UpperPaleolithic of the Iranian Central Desert: the Delazian Site – aCase Study .............................. 1 OmranGharasian,Leila Papolis and Hamide Fakhr-e Ghaemi, Qaleh Khan aSite in Northern Khorassanand the Neolithic of North Eastern Iranian Plateau ............... 21 MohammadEsmaeil Esmaeili Jelodarand SaeedZolghad,CentralZagros, Highland Fars, and Lowland, Susiana Sphere of Interaction in the 5th Millennium BC.: Evidence from salvage excavation at Haji Jalil 2,Kuhrang, Iran ............................... 51 Massimo Vidale,DeboraVendemi and Edoardo Loliva,Uncertainty and errors in the Painted Buff Ware of Shahr-eSukhte (Sistan, Iran) ......................... 71 KaiKaniuth, Die Bestattungen des Hu¨gels 4 von Dz˘arkutan ................... 95 Mutin-Razzakov, Cultural contacts across the Hindu Kush in the early Bronze Age. Additional insights from Sarazm – Soundings 11–11A(Tajikistan) ....................... 123 Ruben Badalyan,AdamT.Smith,Ian Lindsay,Armine Harutyunyan, Alan Greene, MaureenMarshall, BelindaMonahanund RomanHovsepyan,with contributions by Khachatur Meliksetian, Ernst Pernicka and Samuel Haroutunian, APreliminary Report on the 2008, 2010,and 2011 InvestigationsofProject ArAGATSonthe Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia . 149 AlirezaAskariChaverdi,PierfrancescoCallieri andEmadMatin,Tol-e Ajori: a Monumental Gate of the Early Achaemenian periodinthe Persepolis Area. The 2014 excavation season of the Iranian-Italian project ‘‘From Palace to Town’’, with an appendix by Gian Pietro Basel- lo, Afragment of another inscribed glazed brick from Tol-e Ajori. .................. 223 MichaelFedorov, Money circulationinCentral Asia underT¯ımu¯rand T¯ımu¯rids ......... 255 AlexandreTourovetz, The search for abetter organisation of the space and its use: apossible cause to explain theoutbreakofthe Achaemenian Architecture ................... 281 MernoushSoroush,The Misrof‘Askar Mokram: Preliminary Report and Framework for Future Research ............˙ .................................. 299 Yaghesh Kazemi, SolarConsiderations in Planning of Three Circular CitiesinAncient Persia... 321 Book reviews W. Roberts/C. P. Thornton (eds.), Archaeometallurgy in global perspective. Methods and syntheses (Springer, Heidelberg, New York 2014)(B. Helwing)......................... 331 Orbituary Yuriy FedorovichBuryakov. 1934–2015 (A. E. Berdimurodov) ................... 335 Vadim Nikolaevich Yagodin. 1932–2015 (A. D. Iskanderova) ................... 339 Apreliminary report on the 2008, 2010,and 2011 investigations of Project ArAGATS on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia By Ruben Badalyan, Adam T. Smith,Ian Lindsay, Armine Harutyunyan, Alan Greene,Maureen Marshall, BelindaMonahan, Roman Hovsepyan With contributions by Khachatur Meliksetian,Ernst Pernicka and Samuel Haroutunian Keywords: Armenia, Tsaghkahovit Plain, Early Bronze Age, Kura-Araxes, Late Bronze Age, Gegharot, Tsaghkahovit, Aragatsi Berd ˚ºþ÷åâßå æºîâà: ÀðìåíŁ', ÖàıŒàîâŁòæŒà'ðàâíŁíà, ðàííŁØ ÆðîíçîâßØ âåŒ, Œóðî-àðàŒæ, ïîçäíŁØ ÆðîíçîâßØ âåŒ, ˆåıàðîò, ÖàıŒàîâŁò, ÀðàªàöŁ Æåðä Fig. 1 Archaeologicalsites of the Tsaghkahovit Plain and surrounding areas In 1998 the joint Armenian-American Project for the detail the processes that drove major historical Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcauca- transformationsover the longue dure´e.2 sian Societies(Project ArAGATS) began asystematic The Tsaghkahovit Plain (2000 ma.s.l.) is a investigation of Bronze and Iron Age sites in the 10–12 km wide upland basin bounded by the Tsaghkahovit Plain of central Armenia.1 Our goal northern slope of Mt. Aragats (4090 m), the south- was, and remains, to provide an encompassing ac- count of the rangeofsocial, economic, and political practices that characterizedlife in the region and 2 See the Project ArAGATS website (http://aragats.arts.cornell.edu) for overviews of each season and all of ouranalyticaland field research.This contributionwas sent to AMIT during the summer of 2012.Since that time, Project ArAGATS has continuedits in- 1 Avetisyan et al. 2000;Badalyan et al. 2008;Smith et al. 2004; vestigations with field seasonsin2013, 2014, 2015,and 2016. Smith et al. 2009. The resultsofthat work will be reported separately. 150 Ruben Badalyan et al. western slopes of the Pambak range, and the east 2008 and 2011 have provided critical new informa- flank of Mt. Kolgat. The region is crossed by akey tion on both of these central concerns.5 north-south transit route that connects the Ararat Plain with points north and hosts the headwaters of the Kasakh river, akey tributary of the Araxes. Excavations at Gegharot Over the course of three field seasons in 2008, 2010,and 2011,Project ArAGATS completed Excavations were conducted at the settlement of anew phase in its investigations.3 Building upon Gegharot (Fig. 2) in three general areas: the west continuing work at the sites of Gegharot and Tsagh- terrace (operations T-2E, T-19,T-31),