چکیده:
The Kaftari ceramic assemblage has previously been dated to the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium b.c.e, and is primarily
known as a result of surveys in the Kur River Basin and the excavations conducted at the site of Tal-e Malyan, i.e., the ancient city
of Anshan. Various excavations have shown that Kaftari and Kaftari-related ceramic vessels have a wide distribution, including sites
in various parts of Fars, the Bushire Peninsula and throughout the Persian Gulf. This paper will review the evidence for Kaftari and
Kaftari-related ceramic material in southwest Iran and the Persian Gulf. It will then draw conclusions about the significance that the
chronology and distribution of this material has for our understanding of the interaction between southwest Iran and the other areas that
were involved in the Persian Gulf trading system that operated in the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium b.c.e.
خلاصه ماشینی:
of different regions of southwest Irān, similar vessels have also dominated a four-tier settlement hierarchy during also been recovered from excavations at sites on the islands the Kaftari period, which is comprised of between 75-90 of Failaka, Tarut, Bahrain, and on the Oman Peninsula in sites (Sumner 1988: 317; 1989: 137, 148, Table 3-6, Fig. 1; the United Arab Emirates across the Persian Gulf (see 1990: 96, 106, Table 2, Figs.
The decoration that Operation ABC in particular displayed evidence for a appears on the painted buff-ware in particular is varied, but stratigraphic discontinuity between the earlier Middle is regularly comprised of sets of fine parallel brown bands Banesh period structures and the Kaftari period deposits, that can be separated by single wavy lines, registers of and this has been used to suggest that this part of the site at more complex decoration, or combinations of the two (see least was abandoned for some time during the intervening Sumner 1992: 286-7).
The recently Malyan and the Kur River Basin published H5 sounding in Operation GHI has, however, Early surveys at Malyan recovered a number of fragmentary demonstrated that some parts of Malyan were apparently inscribed brick fragments, which identified the site as the occupied more or less continuously during the third ancient city of Anshan (Hansman 1972: 111-24; Reiner millennium b.
discussing relative parallels for this material in different A considerable corpus of Kaftari ceramic material areas of southwest Iran and with material from sites in the collected from surface surveys was presented in Sumner's Persian Gulf.