Hasanlu V

The Late Bronze and Iron I Periods

Michael D. Danti

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781934536612, 9781934536612
• eBook ISBN: 9781934536629
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

Hasanlu V provides archaeologists with a new, more accurate chronology of Hasanlu, the largest and arguably the most important archaeological site in the Gadar River Valley of northwestern Iran. This revised chronology introduces Hasanlu Periods VIa, V, and IVc for the first time. Based on new findings, the report overturns current constructions of the origins of the archaeological culture in Hasanlu, which sought to link the Monochrome Burnished Ware Horizon (formerly known as the Early Western Grey Ware Horizon) to the migration of new peoples into western Iran in the later second millennium B.C. Hasanlu V shows instead that the Monochrome Burnished Ware Horizon developed gradually from indigenous traditions. This reappraisal has important implications for our understanding of Indo-Iranian migrations into the Zagros region.University Museum Monograph, 137

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Plates
• List of Tables
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1. Usnu-Solduz and the Lake Urmia Region in the Later 2nd Millennium BC
• 2. "Hasanlu V": Definition, Research Questions, and History of Scholarship
• 3. The Reanalysis of "Hasanlu V": Stratigraphy, Architecture, and Radiocarbon Dating
• 4. Overview of the Ceramic Assemblages of Hasanlu VIa–IVc
• 5. The Middle Bronze, Late Bronze, and Iron I Graves of Hasanlu and Dinkha
• 6. The Personal Ornaments of Hasanlu VIb–IVc by Megan Cifarelli
• 7. Conclusions
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Plates