page_title: Tepe Hissar
hierarchical_section_title: Tepe Hissar
caption_attribution_description: English: Ancient pottery from Tepe Hissar Layer III, 2300-1900 BC Deutsch: Die Ausstellung "Iran. Frühe Kulturen zwischen Wasser und Wüste" in der Bonner Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zeigte vom 13. April bis 20. August 2017 Kunstgegenstände der iranischen Kulturen der Frühzeit, vom 7. bis ins 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr., und gab einen Einblick in auf eine in Europa wenig bekannte Bildwelt aus einem über Jahrzehnte verschlossenen Land.
context_page_description: Tepe Hissar is a prehistoric site located in the village Heydarabad just south of Damghan in Semnan Province in Northeastern Iran. The site was firstly discovered in 1877 by Albert Houtum-Schindler and then investigated in 1931 and 1932 by Erich Schmidt, on behalf of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. A surface survey was carried out in 1972, while in 1976 a re-study project was performed, utilizing modern methods of stratigraphic assessments, ceramic typological analysis and radiocarbon dating, by the University of Pennsylvania Museum, the University of Turin and Iran Center for Archaeological Research. Other researches, rescue excavations and salvage works were done in the 1990s.
  The site is notable for its uninterrupted occupational history from the 5th to the 2nd millennium BCE. The quantity and elaborateness of its excavated artifacts and funerary customs position the site prominently as a cultural bridge between Mesopotamia and Central Asia.
context_section_description: Tepe Hissar is a prehistoric site located  in the village Heydarabad just south of Damghan in Semnan Province in Northeastern Iran. The site was firstly discovered in 1877 by Albert Houtum-Schindler and then investigated in 1931 and 1932 by Erich Schmidt, on behalf of the University of Pennsylvania Museum (Schmidt 1933, 1937). A surface survey was carried out in 1972, while in 1976 a re-study project was performed, utilizing modern methods of stratigraphic assessments, ceramic typological analysis and radiocarbon dating, by the University of Pennsylvania Museum, the University of Turin and Iran Center for Archaeological Research(Dyson and Howard, 1989). Other researches, rescue excavations and salvage works were done in the 1990s.
  The site is notable for its uninterrupted occupational history from the 5th to the 2nd millennium BCE. The quantity and elaborateness of its excavated artifacts and funerary customs position the site prominently as a cultural bridge between Mesopotamia and Central Asia.
caption: Ancient pottery from Tepe Hissar Layer III, 2300-1900 b.C.
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