Tappa Gawri Explained

Tappa Gawri
Native Name:Tappa Gawri
Alternate Name:Tappeh Gabri
Map Type:Iran
Map Alt:Location in Iran
Map Size:250px
Altitude M:1350
Relief:yes
Coordinates:34.3267°N 47.0661°W
Location:Kermanshah Province, Iran
Region:Kermanshah
Type:mound
Length:250m
Width:180m
Area:2.60NaN0
Height:7
Built:ca. 7,000 BP
Abandoned:ca. 1,200 BP
Epochs:Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Parthian, Sassanian
Archaeologists:Louis D. LEVINE
Condition:Under modern houses
Ownership:Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, Iran

Tappa Gawri is an archaeological site in the Kermanshah, in Iran, about 240m (790feet) from the south of the Ashayer Blvd (former Sanjabi Street). Tappa Gawri is one of the four mound sites in Kermanshah city. The other mound sites are Chogha Kaboud, Chogha Golan, and Morad Hasel. Tappeh Gawri includes two mounds, the larger is located north and is 400m (1,300feet) by 300m (1,000feet) and about 7m (23feet) high. The southern mound is 200m (700feet) by 160m (530feet) and about 3m (10feet) high. The site was recorded during an initial season of archaeological research in the Kermanshah and Mahidasht valleys, in the summer of 1975,[1] by a team directed by Louis D. Levine from the Royal Ontario Museum, with the assistance of the Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research.[2] They found surface archaeological material date to Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Parthian, and Sassanian periods.

Notes and References

  1. Levine, L. D., & McDonald, M. M. (1977). The Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in the Mahidasht. Iran, 15(1), 39-50.
  2. Levine, L. D. (1974). Archaeological Investigations in the Mahidasht Western Iran-1975. Paléorient, 2(2), 487-490.