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Yanık Tepe : Northwestern Iran : The early trans-caucasian period. Stratigraphy and architecture / Geoffrey D. Summers, with a foreword by Charles Burney.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series ; 41. | Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Supplement Series ; ; 41. Publication details: Leuven ; Paris ; Walpole, MA. : Peeters, 2013.Description: xxxii, 217 p. ; illus. ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9789042927131
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS262.Y36 S86 2013
Contents:
Chapter 1. Background, Location and stratigraphy -- The Setting -- The Site of Yanık Tepe -- The Excavations -- Terminology -- The Stratigraphy -- Summary and Conclusions Suggested by the Stratigraphy -- Chapter 2. The Cicular Buildings --General Comments on the ETC II Circles -- The Earliest ETC II Round Houses and Associated Features -- Interpretation and Comment on the Earliest ETC II Round Houses and Associated Features -- Continuing Development of the ETC II Round Houses and Settlement -- The Defences, Level 15 -- The latest Circles, Levels 14 -11 -- The End of ETC II at Yanık Tepe -- Chapter 3. The Rectilinear Buildings -- General Comments on the ETC III Rectilinear Buildings -- Stratigraphy, Levels, Excavation and Recording -- Chapter 4. The Early Trans-Caucasian Culture and the Place of Yanık Tepe -- Introduction -- The Chronology of ETC Levels at Yanık Tepe -- Yanık Tepe, an Early Trans-Caucasian Village -- The Wider Setting -- Afterword.
Summary: Excavations at Yanik Tepe were conducted by Charles A. Burney over three seasons from 1960 to 1962. The site is located to the northeast of Lake Urmia, some 20 km from Tabriz. This volume comprises the final report on the long sequences of stratigraphy and architecture belonging to the Early Trans-Caucasian (ETC) period which lasted from about 3000 BCE into the early second millennium. It is argued that the ETC people who founded the village came from a long tradition of settled farming. While the first two phases, ETC I-II, are characterised by round houses and the third, ETC III, sees an abrupt shift to rectilinear building, there is strong continuity in the use of space and, particularly, of built-in kitchen ranges. The descriptive text is enhanced by numerous photographs and line drawings. A concluding chapter makes pertinent comment on chronology and the place of Yanik Tepe within a wider setting. A foreword by Charles Burney provides colourful background to his pioneering excavations.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-198)

Chapter 1. Background, Location and stratigraphy -- The Setting -- The Site of Yanık Tepe -- The Excavations -- Terminology -- The Stratigraphy -- Summary and Conclusions Suggested by the Stratigraphy -- Chapter 2. The Cicular Buildings --General Comments on the ETC II Circles -- The Earliest ETC II Round Houses and Associated Features -- Interpretation and Comment on the Earliest ETC II Round Houses and Associated Features -- Continuing Development of the ETC II Round Houses and Settlement -- The Defences, Level 15 -- The latest Circles, Levels 14 -11 -- The End of ETC II at Yanık Tepe -- Chapter 3. The Rectilinear Buildings -- General Comments on the ETC III Rectilinear Buildings -- Stratigraphy, Levels, Excavation and Recording -- Chapter 4. The Early Trans-Caucasian Culture and the Place of Yanık Tepe -- Introduction -- The Chronology of ETC Levels at Yanık Tepe -- Yanık Tepe, an Early Trans-Caucasian Village -- The Wider Setting -- Afterword.

Excavations at Yanik Tepe were conducted by Charles A. Burney over three seasons from 1960 to 1962. The site is located to the northeast of Lake Urmia, some 20 km from Tabriz. This volume comprises the final report on the long sequences of stratigraphy and architecture belonging to the Early Trans-Caucasian (ETC) period which lasted from about 3000 BCE into the early second millennium. It is argued that the ETC people who founded the village came from a long tradition of settled farming. While the first two phases, ETC I-II, are characterised by round houses and the third, ETC III, sees an abrupt shift to rectilinear building, there is strong continuity in the use of space and, particularly, of built-in kitchen ranges. The descriptive text is enhanced by numerous photographs and line drawings. A concluding chapter makes pertinent comment on chronology and the place of Yanik Tepe within a wider setting. A foreword by Charles Burney provides colourful background to his pioneering excavations.

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