<< News >> Iran holds intl. seminar on 6500-year-old Tappeh Hesar
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Over six millennia of culture at the Tappeh Hesar site was examined during a two-day international seminar that began on February 17 in Damghan in the eastern Iranian province of Semnan.
The main aim of the seminar was to survey the situation in the central Iranian plateau in ancient times, Archaeological Research Center of Iran (ARCI) director Mohammad-Hassan Fazel Nashli said in his speech during the opening ceremony.
“Japanese and U.S. archaeologists are very familiar with Tappeh Hesar, and they have published many books and articles on the importance of the site over the years,” he added.
“Tappeh Hesar is one of the sites that was constantly used as a residential area for over 4000 years and contains many significant cultural traces of the Bronze Age,” he explained.
“The world should be better familiarized with it through comprehensive research,” he added.
Eighteen papers of the 45 submitted by Iranian and foreign experts studying the position of Tappeh Hesar in interregional and intraregional relations, its trade in lapis lazuli, the findings of the latest excavations, and artifacts discovered at the site were presented during the seminar.
A number of experts from the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, India, and Turkey participated in the event.
Tappeh Hesar was first excavated by teams of archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania in 1931–1932 and the University of Tokyo in 1956. The excavations determined that the site had three main cultural periods, beginning from the late Neolithic period and extending to the end of the Bronze Age.
The most ancient stratum of the site dates back to the middle of the 5th millennium BC.
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