Godin Tepe

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A site in the Kangavar valley of Luristan, western Iran, with continuous occupation from the early 5th millennium to c 1600 BC (late Iron Age) when it was abandoned following an earthquake and not reoccupied for around 800 years. The cultural sequence provides the framework for the cultural history of this section of the Zagros Mountains. The earliest two building levels are associated with straw-tempered, poorly fired pottery and a stone industry. Most interesting is Godin V of the late 4th millennium BC in which Late Uruk materials (bevel-rimmed bowls, pottery, seal styles, tablets) are found. In Godin II, c 750 BC, the site was a fortified town of the Medes, and an important building with three colonnaded halls and a throne room has been excavated. A stain on an amphora has revealed the world's earliest wine c 3500 BC.

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Site on the Gamur Ab river system of western Iran, with a continuous occupation from the 6th millennium be to cl600 bc, when it was abandoned following an earthquake and not reoccupied for c800 years. Soundings to the earliest levels (Godin VII) revealed two building levels associated with straw-tempered, poorly fired pottery and a stone industry that lacked obsidian and ground stone, but yielded many blades with extensive retouch. A later phase, Godin V (late 4th millennium bc) shows trading connections both with Mesopotamia (bevel-rim bowls) and with other parts of Iran (clay tablets in the Proto-Elamite script). In Godin II (c750 bc) the site was a fortified town of the Medes, and an important building with three colonnaded halls and a throne room has been excavated.

The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied

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