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CAIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL
& CULTURAL NEWS©
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7,000
Year Old Relics Found Northeast of Iran
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News
Category:
Prehistory
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24
January 2004
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Archaeologists
have come across relics from some
7,000 years ago in the second season of explorations in Jorjan
near Gonbad Kavous in northeastern province of Golestan.
Head of the explorations team Mohammad Mortezai said the last
explorations season in 2002 rendered red pottery bearing designs
in black believed to date back to the fifth millennium B.C.
"In addition, figurines of animals and humans bearing black
and creamy designs plotted against a reddish background, were
found," he noted.
Among other finds in the first season are grey pottery pieces
analogous to the Iron Age porcelain in the central plain.
Located near the city of Gonbad Kavous, it covers an area of
1500 hectares. Jorjan was erected on remains of a city from the Sasanid
era. It experienced its heyday in the Seljuk era.
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