Stratified Sequence and Relative Chronology at Toll-e Gap Kenareh, Marvdasht plain, Iran

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 Department of Archaeology , University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Department of Archaeology , University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran.

3 Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research. (ICAR)

Abstract

The site of Toll-e Gap Kenareh is located 5 Km southwest of Persepolis, 3 Km northeast of Marvdasht city in
the Kur River Basin. The first season of excavation at Toll-e Gap was conducted in Sept/Oct 2012 to identify
the cultural stratified sequence of the site and to get relative and absolute dating for the 3rd millennium BC. Fars.
Two trenches (A and B) were excavated during this season of excavation on the east and west sides of the site
and reached the virgin soil at 5.3 m depth. According to the recovered potsherds and comparing them to the other
sites of the Kur River Basin, it can be inferred that the chronological sequence found in Toll-e Gap Kenareh
displays early Islamic, Sasanian, early Kaftari, transitional Banesh / Kaftari and Banesh (early, middle, and late?)
periods. Toll-e Gap Kenareh opens new horizons in the archaeology of Fars during the 3rd millennium BC., above
all for the transition between the well-known Banesh and Kaftari periods.

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Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies
Volume 7, Issue 1
2017
Pages 85-106

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