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Document Details : Title: A note on the chipped stone industry of Tamerkhan Author(s): MORTENSEN, Peter Journal: Iranica Antiqua Volume: 37 Date: 2002 Pages: 219-227 DOI: 10.2143/IA.37.0.124 Abstract : Tamerkhan is a mound situated c. one kilometre from Choga Mami at an elevation of 140 m. above sea level on the edge of the hilly flanks sloping down from the Zagros mountains towards the Mesopotamian plain. It is the earliest site among an important group of prehistoric tells found by Joan Oates during her survey in the Mandali region in the spring of 1966. The mound is 6 metres high covering an area of about 125 x 100 metres. In her preliminary report on the survey Joan Oates gives a short description of the material found on the surface of Tamerkhan: a small collection of coarse, chaff-tempered sherds, a few sherds with traces of red paint and some fragments of red-slipped, burnished pottery, cores and blades of flint and obsidian, a large number of mortars, querns, pestles and rubbing stones, a piece of a stone bracelet and fragments of stone bowls — all in general resembling the pottery and the ground- and chipped stone industries of Jarmo, Sarab and Tepe Guran. |
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