Tall-i Bakun
Tall-i Bakun is an archaeological excavation site in the southwest of present-day Iran in the Fars province . It is in the Kawir desert .
Tall-i Bakun is actually two hills called Tall-i Bakun A and B. Excavations of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago took place in 1932 under the direction of Alexander Langsdorff and Donald McCown and in 1937 under Eric Schmidt and Donald McCown.
Tall-i Bakun B dates to the 6th millennium BC. It was possible to distinguish between two cultural layers, which only contained rubbish and a rather simple, rough ceramic. No remains of architecture could be found.
Tall-i Bakun A was from about 4000 to 3500 BC. Settled. Four layers could be distinguished. Layer III was best preserved and shows a settlement in which the residential buildings were built close together with no roads or paths. The individual residential contents consisted of several rooms. A pottery could be observed. Remnants of wall paintings and a wooden column point to a once rich interior. The pottery found here was richly painted. There were female figures and those of animals. There were also cylinder seals that refer to a kind of administration.
literature
- Alexander Langsdorff, Donald McCown: Tall-i Bakun A, A Season of 1932. Oriental Institute Publication 59 . Oriental Institute, Chicago 1942.
- Abbas Alizadeh : The Origins of State Organizations in Prehistoric Highland Fars, Southern Iran: Excavations at Tall-e Bakun. Oriental Institute Publication 128 . Oriental Institute, Chicago 2006 full text (PDF; 8.5 MB).
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Coordinates: 29 ° 55 ' N , 52 ° 53' E