Preliminary Report on the Survey of Hajjiabad-Varamin, a Site of the Konar Sandal Settlement Network (Jiroft, Kerman, Iran)

Nasir Eskandari (1) , François Desset (2) , Mojgan Shafiee (2) , Meysam Shahsavari (1) , Salman Anjamrouz (1) , Irene Caldana (3) , Ali Daneshi (1) , Ali Shahdadi (1) , Massimo Vidale (3)

1 University of Jiroft
2 Archéorient - ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien
3 Unipd - Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua

The purpose of this article is to introduce the large prehistoric site of Hajjiabad-Varamin, its changes in time and the first discoveries made there, in the specific literature on the early Bronze Age of the southeastern Iranian Plateau. The first part of the article describes the site, its present damaged conditions, the periodisation we adopted and the complex topographic shifts and changes of functions through time. The second part focuses on the settlement of the 3rd millennium BC and discusses a major craft activity area found east of the main elevation of the site, in which were manufactured vessels in various stones (white alabaster, grey limestones with white fossil inclusions, and probably chlorite). Collections include large drill-heads in volcanic rocks used on the interior of the stone pots, and standardised beads of a green and red-banded calcite broken while being drilled. While the stone vessels find abundant comparisons and were certainly in demand for long-distance trade, the beads type is not known in other contexts and were presumably made for a local demand. We also present the unusual find of a hoard of copper objects which helps framing the 3rd millennium BC centre in terms of cultural links and chronology.

Mots clés: Hajjiabad-Varamin; Konar Sandal sites network; Halil Rud civilisation; surface survey; craft activity areas; Hajjiabad-Varamin; Hajjiabad-Varamin

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire; Art et histoire de l'art; Héritage culturel et muséologie; Linguistique; Histoire

Nasir Eskandari, François Desset, Mojgan Shafiee, Meysam Shahsavari, Salman Anjamrouz, et al.. Preliminary Report on the Survey of Hajjiabad-Varamin, a Site of the Konar Sandal Settlement Network (Jiroft, Kerman, Iran). Iran : journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, In press, ⟨10.1080/05786967.2021.1936595⟩. ⟨hal-03471246⟩