Tall-e Bakun is located in the fertile plain of Marv Dasht, near Persepolis. It consists of two mounds, differentiated as Bakun A and Bakun B.
Tall e Bakun A was a settlement inhabited from ca sixth to fourth millenium BC. It was centre of craftmanship and trade. The northern part was an administrative quarter with warehouses 1, what prooved findings of the clay seals. The central and southern quarters seemd to be an industrial zone - worksop areas what suggest kilns of various size covered with ashes and debris and findings of different tools and unfinished material goods2.
Sources:
- Erich F. Schmidt, Tol-e-Bakun: Prehistoric Mound near Persepolis, University of Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin, 1939, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 27-28
- Abbas Alizadeh, Abbas Alizadeh, The Origins of State Organizations in Prehistoric Highland Fars, Southern Iran: Excavations at Tall-e Bakun, Oriental Institute Publication 128, 2006 - http://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/oip128.pdf
- Abbas Alizadeh, Socio-Economic Complexity in Southwestern Iran during the Fifth and Fourth Millennia B.C.: The Evidence from Tall-i Bakun A, Iran,Vol. 26 (1988), pp. 17-34
References
- ↑Abbas Alizadeh, Socio-Economic Complexity in Southwestern Iran during the Fifth and Fourth Millennia B.C.: The Evidence from Tall-i Bakun A, Iran,Vol. 26 (1988), pp. 20nn
- ↑Abbas Alizadeh, Socio-Economic Complexity in Southwestern Iran during the Fifth and Fourth Millennia B.C.: The Evidence from Tall-i Bakun A, Iran,Vol. 26 (1988), p. 23