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      Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann

      UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

      PHILADELPHIA

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      Names: Gürsan-Salzmann, Ayşe, author.

      Title: The new chronology of the Bronze Age settlement of Tepe Hissar, Iran / Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann.

      Description: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2016. | Series: University Museum monographs ; 142 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2015050324| ISBN 9781934536834 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 1934536830 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781934536841 (eISBN)

      Subjects: LCSH: Hissar Tepe (Iran) | Bronze age--Iran--Hissar Tepe. | Iran--Antiquities.

      Classification: LCC DS262.H57 G87 2016 | DDC 935/.7--dc23

      LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015050324

      © 2016 by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

      Philadelphia, PA

      All rights reserved. Published 2016

      Published for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

      Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.

      About the cover art: One of the five modeled mouflon heads from Tepe Hissar, made of gold foil and decorated with repoussé technique. Dated to ca. 1900 BC from hoard 1 at Treasure Hill. Drawing by Han A. Salzmann.

      Table of Contents

       LIST OF FIGURES

       LIST OF TABLES

       LIST OF SECTIONS

       LIST OF MAPS

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       Tepe Hissar, an Introduction

       1 Erich F. Schmidt Excavations (1931–32)

       2 Stratigraphy and Architecture

       3 Analysis of Ceramic Complexes of the Main Mound and the North Flat

       4 Burial Stratigraphy: The Main Mound and the North Flat, 1931–32 and 1976

       5 Death and Burial Culture of Tepe Hissar

       6 Concluding Remarks

       APPENDICES

       1 Pottery Charts

       2 Low and High Outlier Burial Tables

       3 Maps

       4 Radiocarbon Dates from the 1976 Restudy Project

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX