Tepe Sarab
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Tepe Sarab ware (c.7000–5000 BCE)·Zagros Neolithic (Sarab culture)·🇮🇷 Kermanshah Province, Western Iran, Iran
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About Tepe Sarab
Small but culturally seminal tell near Kermanshah at Sarab pass with Braidwood 1947 type-site red-painted Sarab ware, proto-domestic goat bones, and pisé hamlets preceding Jarmo and Hassuna transition zone. Tepe Sarab — Early Neolithic Painted Pottery Village context and stratigraphy linking to regional chronology.
Why it mattersTepe Sarab — Early Neolithic Painted Pottery Village
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Stratigraphic relation to neighboring cultures?
Theories
- 01Regional trade node
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- Occupied Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Tepe Sarab ware (c.7000–5000 BCE)
- Period
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Tepe Sarab ware (c.7000–5000 BCE)
- Culture
- Zagros Neolithic (Sarab culture)
- Builders
- Local communities
- Purpose
- Early Zagros painted pottery and goat domestication testing ground
- Abandoned
- post-period
- Rediscovered
- 19th-century surveys, modern excavations
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Tepe Sarab ware
Early Zagros painted pottery and goat domestication testing ground
On the ground
Structures & features
34.4500° N · 47.5000° E · 450 m · 2 mapped features
Red-Painted Pottery Horizon (Level I)
villageNeolithic houses with Sarab red-on-buff pottery floor
34.4510° N · 47.5010° EEarly Goat Domestication Fauna Pit
faunaFauna deposit with proto-caprine horn cores
34.4490° N · 47.4990° E