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Tepe Ghabristan: A Chalcolithic tell buried in alluvium.

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dc.creator Schmidt, Armin R.
dc.creator Fazeli, H.
dc.date 2009-12-02T16:01:23Z
dc.date 2009-12-02T16:01:23Z
dc.date 2007
dc.identifier Schmidt, A. R. and Fazeli, H. (2007). Tepe Ghabristan: a Chalcolithic tell buried in alluvium. Archaeological Prospection, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 38-46.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4024
dc.description no
dc.description The Chalcolithic tell of Ghabristan in northwest Iran is now buried by alluvium and a magnetometer survey of the tell and its surroundings was undertaken to reveal any features under this cover. After the abandonment of the tell in the late third millennium BC it was used as an Iron Age cemetery by inhabitants of the neighbouring tell of Sagzabad. The magnetometer data show a related irregularly shaped channel that is also considered to be of Iron Age date.Its shallow burial depth, compared with the thick sedimentary layers underneath, indicates a considerable slowdown of alluviation rates in the second millennium BC, possibly related to environmental changes. The survey also found evidence for undisturbed buried building remains, most likely associated with copper workshops.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Wiley
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1002/arp.291
dc.subject Magnetometer survey
dc.subject Tell
dc.subject Iran
dc.subject Alluvium
dc.subject Sedimentation
dc.subject Iron Age
dc.subject Geophysics
dc.title Tepe Ghabristan: A Chalcolithic tell buried in alluvium.
dc.type Article
dc.type published version paper


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