Archaeometric Investigation on the Grey Ware from Baluchestan, Iran: Intraregional Interactions in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands during the Late 4^th-Early 3^rd Millennia BCE.

Sheikhi, Mohamadreza; Sedghi, Yasin; Eskandari, Nasir; Emami, Mohammadamin; Heydari, Mohammad

The focus of this work is the archaeometric investigation of a high quality ceramic typical of the Indo-Iranian Borderlands in ca. 3300-2900 BCE. Variously labelled as "Emir Grey" and "Late Shahi Tump" ware, this fine grey ceramic is often considered an elite or prestige product on account of its very thin walls, fine fabric, and painted designs. In the present paper, thin-section petrography, XRD, and SEM-EDX analyses were carried out on a selection of pottery pieces from the burial contexts at the Chegerdak cemetery of Iranshahr (Baluchestan, Iran). The results shed new light on the production and circulation of the pottery. Most notably, it potentially extended the map of its production centers to western Iranian Baluchestan.

BALUCHISTAN; CULTURAL property; X-ray diffraction; BRONZE Age; PETROLOGY; BORDERLANDS; CEMETERY buildings; POTTERY; ARCHAEOMETRY

Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2023, Vol 13, Issue 1, p91

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Academic Journal

10.22111/IJAS.2023.44984.1255