Sample name: Tappeh Sang-e Chakhmaq (West Mound)

Reference: K. Roustaei, M. Mashkour, and M. Tengberg. 2015. Tappeh Sang-e Chakhmaq and the beginning of the Neolithic in north-east Iran. Antiquity 89(345):573-595 [ER 3764]

Lithology: ash

Taphonomic context: human accumulation,settlement

Archaeology: buildings,ceramics,hearths,stone tools,other artifacts

Habitat comments: "The site comprises two adjacent mounds some 100m apart, the West Mound and the East Mound. The West Mound is circular in shape, covers c. 0.4 ha and rises c. 3 m above the surrounding ground. The sequence included in situ eroded accumulations of mud-brick or pisé architecture interspersed with thick ash or charcoal layers from possible hearths. Two small pieces of pottery were found confirming its use at the site".
"The lithic industry of the West Mound is largely dominated by unretouched bladelets and blades, with only a few backed bladelets, drills, geometrics, end scrapers and cores. Light brown chert, grey flint and chalcedony were the favoured materials, but a few items made of obsidian were also found. Most of the recovered small finds were objects made of stone or baked and unbaked clay. After lithics, clay objects were the most numerous small find. A large number of the clay objects represented parts of clay figurines, both anthropomorphic and zoomorphic, and in rare cases, geometric ‘tokens’".

Life forms: carnivores,ungulates,other small mammals,turtles

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 83 specimens

Years: 2009

Sampling comments: "In April 2009 a 2.5 × 1m sounding was opened in the West Mound. Virgin soil was reached at a depth of 2.43m below the present ground surface. In the excavated sequence 49 contexts (100–148 from top to bottom) were recognised and divided into four phases". No information is provided on whether the material was screened.

Sample number: 4026

Contributor: Benjamin Carter

Enterer: Benjamin Carter

Created: 2022-10-24 11:52:23

Modified: 2022-10-24 01:02:18