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Second Millennium B.C. Pottery at Hasanlu Tepe and Dinkha Tepe: Inaa and Petrographic Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Leigh-Ann Bedal ,
Stuart Fleming ,
Maude De Schauensee  and
Ronald Hancock
Leigh-Ann Bedal
Affiliation:
Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Stuart Fleming
Affiliation:
Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Maude De Schauensee
Affiliation:
Near East Section, The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Ronald Hancock
Affiliation:
SLOWPOKE Reactor Facility and Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
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Abstract

Hasanlu Tepe and Dinkha Tepe are located in the Ushnu-Solduz valley system of northwestern Iran. A comparison of the pottery assemblages of the Late Bronze Age (Has VI and Din IV) and the Early Iron Age (Has V and Din III) at each site shows that there was an abrupt stylistic change from one period to the next, that change being attributed to the migration of a new people into the region, circa 1450 B.C. INAA and petrographic analysis indicates that this cultural change influenced only stylistic aspects of the local pottery tradition: no new clay sources were exploited, no novel tempering practices were introduced. Rather, all the technological differences we can detect relate to variations within the internal organization of pottery production at each site, suggesting the presence of some workshops which specialized in certain ware types. There is also evidence for appreciable movement of finer painted wares from Dinkha to Hasanlu during the Bronze Age.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 352: Symposium – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IV , 1995 , 453
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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