Excavations of the Chalcolithic Occupations at Salat Tepe on the Upper Tigris, Southeastern Anatolia

Salat Tepe is located on the left bank of Salat River, a tributary of the upper Tigris in southeastern Turkey (Fig. 1). The site measures ca. 180 m in diameter and ca. 24 m in height showing a silhouette of trapezoid shape. After 2000 Tuba Ökse¹ and Ahmet Görmüş² conducted the archaeological excavat...

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Published inThe Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions p. 147
Main Authors Tatsundo Koizumi, Minoru Yoneda, Shigeru Itoh, Koichi Kobayashi
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Archaeopress Publishing Ltd 2016
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Summary:Salat Tepe is located on the left bank of Salat River, a tributary of the upper Tigris in southeastern Turkey (Fig. 1). The site measures ca. 180 m in diameter and ca. 24 m in height showing a silhouette of trapezoid shape. After 2000 Tuba Ökse¹ and Ahmet Görmüş² conducted the archaeological excavations as the Ilisu Baraji-Salat Tepe Kurtarma Kazisi Projesi (Ökse 2004; Ökse et al. 2006). They excavated several occupations accompanied with mud-brick constructions of the Middle Bronze to Early Iron Ages on the Summit Trench as well as those of the Chalcolithic in the Step Trench on the
ISBN:1784913936
9781784913939
DOI:10.2307/j.ctvxrq0m8.19