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Amir Saedmucheshi

Amir Saedmucheshi

Academic rank: Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000-0002-7702-6722
Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Faculty of Art and Architecture
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E-mail: a.saedmucheshi [at] uok.ac.ir
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Research

Title
Shiran: A Submerged Iron Age Grave in the Darian Dam, Hawraman, Kurdistan
Type
Presentation
Keywords
Grave, Shiran, Hawraman, pottery, bone, Architecture, Iron Age
Year
2019
Researchers Amir Saedmucheshi ، Sara Khalifeh Soltani

Abstract

In Darian Dam Archaeological Salvage Project (DDASP) in 2014 sponsored by the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR), several sites were surveyed and excavated. Unfortunately, during the end of the second season of this project, Shiran grave in Kurdis-tan province was destroyed by illegal excavation through which, the stone structure of a grave and a number of potsherds and bones were identified. This article introduces the Shiran grave and its bones and burial goods. The obtained potteries are gray type wares and show the third quarter of the second millennium BC and Iron Age I. The structure of its stone walls is circular, and its stone row is similar to a dome, which corresponds to the Grave of Rowar in the same village. Its potteries are comparable to the Sarcham site in Rowar, Rowar grave, Central Zagros wares as well as the eastern slopes of the Zagros Mountains in northern Mesopotamia. Some human bone fragments were identified, which probably belong to an individual aged about 18-20 years. In archaeological surveys of the site, a number of potteries belonging to the Chalco-lithic and Islamic period, as well as two sections of the stone walls were identified.