Exploring the Southeast Frontier of the Urartian Kingdom. The Qara Zia-eddin-Survey: An Archaeological Prospection of Anaqizly Tappeh

Journal of Archaeology and Archaeometry

دوره 1، شماره 1، شهریور 2022، صفحه 25-56   

نوع مقاله: Original Article

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.30495/jaa.2022.694356

نویسندگان

Sandra Heinsch^{* 1}؛ Walter Kuntner²؛ Ali Darvish-Zadeh²؛ Gholam Shirzadeh³؛ Keomars Haji Mohamadi⁴

¹Associate Professor Department of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Institute of Ancient History and Near Eastern Studies

²University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

³Research Center for Iranian Cultural Heritage Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, Bastam Camp, Iran

⁴Islamic Azad University of Abhar Branch, Abhar, Iran

چکیده

The Qara Zia-eddin plain is considered a prime example of land use in Southeastern Urartu in the Khoy region of West Azerbaijan. Since 2016, archaeological investigations have been carried out in the Bastam hinterland through the Iranian-Austrian cooperation with the aim of investigating the interaction of settlements with local hilltop fortresses and the use of landscape use in the time of the Urartian Kingdom. The starting point of the project work was in the south of the Qara Zia-eddin plain, with the special focus on the range of hills near the village of Chors. The Urartian fortified settlement of Anaqizly Tappeh was explored using both geomagnetic and archaeological surveys.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Urartu؛ NW-Iran؛ Bastam؛ landscape archaeology؛ geomagnetic prospection؛ Iron Age III