Yarim Tepe 1

Tell site of the Hassuna culture, with 13 levels spanning the Archaic through Standard Hassuna phases (6th millennium BC), near the Caspian Sea in northern Iraq. The ceramic sequences give much detail about the Hassuna culture. There is evidence of metallurgy, the smelting of copper and lead, and advanced potterymaking. Samarran elements appear and Halaf and Sassanian burials also occur. The Neolithic settlement was of the Turkmenian Djei-tun culture.

A tell site near the Caspian Sea in northern Iran. The earliest levels have a Neolithic settlement of the Turkmenian Djei-tun culture. Subsequently the site was abandoned and reoccupied in the later 4th millennium bc. It was abandoned again, possibly after a destruction, in the early 2nd millennium. After a long period of desertion the site was reoccupied again in the Iron Age (late 1st millennium bc) and occupied into the late Parthian period, c200 ad. The site of Tureng Tepe, further west, has a similar sequence of occupation.