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The Excavations at Yanik Tepe, Azerbaijan, 1962: Third Preliminary Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

C. A. Burney
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The third and final season of excavations at Yanik Tepe, near Tabriz, was carried out from 10th August until 5th October, 1962. The work was made possible by the following contributions, which are gratefully acknowledged: the University of Manchester (£600); the University Museum, Cambridge (£250); the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (£250); the Russell Trust (£200); the British Academy (£150); the City Museum, Liverpool (£100); the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham (£50). This amounted to a total for the 1962 season of £1,600. The total sum of contributions for the three seasons of work at Yanik Tepe is £3,350. The staff during the 1962 season comprised the following: the Director and his wife, who was responsible for the register of finds, the greater part of the object-drawing and the house-keeping; Mr. Edward Keall (Surveyor and Draughtsman); Messrs. David Biernoff, Mark Davie, Patrick Guthrie-Jones and Ian Todd (Archaeological Assistants). Mr. Biernoff also recorded the animal bones, and he and Mr. Keall repaired the pottery; Mr. Todd was responsible for the photography of the objects. Mr. Sarafaraz was appointed by the Director-General of the Archaeological Service of Iran as Inspector to accompany the expedition during the 1962 season, and he also acted as an Archaeological Assistant.

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IRAQ , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , Spring 1964 , pp. 54 - 61
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1964

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References

1 Iraq XXIV (1962), pp. 147–9Google Scholar and Pl. XLV.

2 With the pottery from soundings in the mound of Haci Firuz.

3 See Braidwood, R. J., Iranica Antiqua I (1961), pp. 3–7Google Scholar, where a date “circa 9,000–8,000 years ago” is suggested for the phase comparable with the Late Neolithic of Yanik Tepe.

4 E.g. Hacilar.

5 Iranica Antiqua I (1961), pp. 3–7Google Scholar: ground stone bowl and bracelet fragments are mentioned as characteristic of “Model 5” and as comparable with those of Jarmo. The Late Neolithic culture of Yanik Tepe, like that of Tepe Sarab, may be seen as slightly more developed than the contemporary culture of Jarmo.

6 I am indebted to Messrs. Robert Dyson and T. Cuyler Young Jnr. for this information.

7 Antiquity XXXIV (1960), p. 26Google Scholar.

8 Iraq XXIII (1961)Google Scholar, Pt. 2, Pl. LXVI.

9 See Science, Vol. 135 (1962), no. 3504, pp. 639–41Google Scholar.

10 One of the more recent references is in Expedition (Bulletin of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania), Vol. 4, no. 4 (Summer 1962), p. 4Google Scholar.