Yanik Tepe

Tell site near Tabriz, Iran, with evidence of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age, and Iron Age occupations. It is one of the earliest permanent settlement sites in the area, dating from the late-7th millennium BC. The earliest pottery was undecorated, but painted wares appeared in the higher levels. The site was occupied until the beginning of the Islamic period. In the 3rd millennium BC, it was a town surrounded by a stone wall and contained round houses and granaries built of mud-brick. The latest structure on the mound is massive, perhaps a citadel, built of mud-brick and probably of the Sassanian period. The Early Bronze Age settlement consists of a long sequence of Kura-Araxes occupations and many materials of this culture complex.

A tell site near Tabriz in the province of Azerbaijan in northwest Iran. It is one of the earliest permanent settlement sites in the area, dated to the mid-6th millennium be. Nine phases of occupation of this early period were recognized, characterized by rectangular mud-brick houses with plastered floors. The earliest pottery was undecorated, but painted wares appeared in the higher levels. Later prehistoric levels overlie the Neolithic deposits and indeed the site was occupied until the beginning of the Islamic period. In the 3rd millennium bc it was a town surrounded by a stone wall and containing round houses and granaries built of mudbrick. The latest structure on the mound is a massive structure, perhaps a citadel, built of mud-brick and probably of the Sassanian period.