Relative Chronology of the Historical and Cultural Sites of Yazd-Ardekan Plain Based on the Archaeological Data Volume 3 - Issue 1

SeyedFazlollah Mirdehghan¹, Hamid Azizi²*, Ibrahim Kazemnazhand³ and Hasan Rezvani⁴

• ¹Department of Iranian studies, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
• ²Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Iran
• ³Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism of Yazd Province, Iran
• ⁴Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Iran

Received: October 10, 2020   Published: December 02, 2020

Corresponding author: Hamid Azizi, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Iran

DOI: 10.32474/JAAS.2020.03.000154

 

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Abstract

Yazd-Ardekan plain is one of the most important plains in Yazd Province in terms of natural and human resources. Due to its location between different mountains, this plain provides a natural corridor to cross one of the most important transportation routes that connect the cities such as Qom, Tehran, and Kashan to the southern and southeastern regions of Iran. In the past years, scattered archeological activities have been carried out in this plain, the most important of which is the excavation of Gharbalbiz sitein Mehriz during several seasons. But, in recent years, several seasons of research have been done in this area, the maximum focus of which has been on Meybod Town and Rostaq region. During these activities, many sites related to the different cultural periods were identified, which include the time interval from the Epipaleolithic periodto the Qajar period. Also, the archaeological test trenches of the historical context of Yazd City have provided us with very good information about the Islamic Era, especially in the field of pottery, which shows that Yazd had been considered as one pole ofthis industry in some periods.

Keywords: Relative Chronology; Yazd-Ardekan Plain; Natural Corridor; Islamic Period; Pottery Comparison

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