The factors and dynamics that initiated the Neolithisation process in South Caucasus between very end of 7th beginning 6th millennium BCE are still unclear hotly debated. It is within this framework excavations at Kiçik Tepe, middle Kura river valley Western Azerbaijan, aim to offer new data perspectives on complex interplay environmental, social cultural contributed process. Excavations Tepe u...

La premiere campagne de fouilles sur TQS remonte a 2014, dans le cadre d’un sauvetage suite une tranchee traversant tepe pour un pipeline mais aussi des illegales. Des sondages, dont l’un 200m2 ont livre vestiges d’architecture en pierre liees au mortier formant moins cinq salles rangee et d’autres l’autre cote couloir, quantite d’objets varies principalement domestiques metal pierre, ainsi que...

a collection of 100 pieces of painted potteries related to the time period from the fourth to the first millenniums b.c. has been studied in this research. these valuable pieces have been obtained through the excavation of tappegiyan and godin tappe, located in south west of iran. this region including zagros heights and its downhill places have fertile soil, plenty of water sources and are pro...

the study of the circumstances surrounding the development of record-keeping for information purposes, and of what these records looked like, in prehistoric human societies has always played a significant role in archaeological research. such research is important because it relates to the beginnings of the use of accounting and reckoning systems, which came to be one of the principal elements ...

In this study, double-axe/butterfly depictions in an offering pit discovered during the 2018 archaeological survey at Kocakale Tepe (Tisna) are introduced. The doubleaxe/ butterfly motifs with a total of 10 scraping lines different sizes were identified formed on bedrock made up white colored tuff. While double-axes have been observed Aegean World since Bronze Age, it is understood to be import...