Hajji Firuz Tepe
Archaeological site in West Azarbaijan Province, Iran / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hajji Firuz Tepe is an archaeological site located in West Azarbaijan Province in north-western Iran and lies in the north-western part of the Zagros Mountains. The site was excavated between 1958 and 1968 by archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The excavations revealed a Neolithic village that was occupied in the second half of the sixth millennium BC where some of the oldest archaeological evidence of grape-based wine was discovered in the form of organic residue in a pottery jar.[1][2]
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Location | Iran |
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Region | West Azarbaijan province |
Coordinates | 36.9944°N 45.4744°E / 36.9944; 45.4744 |
Type | tell |
Length | 200 metres (660 ft) |
Width | 140 metres (460 ft) |
Height | 10.3 metres (34 ft) |
History | |
Periods | Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Late Bronze Age/Iron Age, Islamic |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 1936, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1968 |
Archaeologists | A. Stein, C. Burney, T. Cuyler Young Jr., R.H. Dyson, Mary M. Voigt |
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