Tol-e Bashi
تل باشی · Tall-e Bashi · Tol-e Bashi (Ramjerd)
Neolithic–Chalcolithic (c.6000–4500 BCE, Mushki–Bashi–Bakun)·Fars Neolithic Mushki → Bashi → Bakun·🇮🇷 Fars Province, Ramjerd plain, Iran
About
About Tol-e Bashi
Neolithic mound in Ramjerd basin, 0.9 ha, 5 m high, Mushki–Shamsabad (6th–5th mill. BCE) pre-Bakun village with earliest Fars Neolithic painted Mushki red ware, Shamsabad plants and caprine. Excavated 2006 by K. Bernbeck, H. Fazeli shows pisé and chineh houses, early lentil/barley and round-plan buildings. Bridge between Bus Mordeh Zagros and Fars Bakun, key for south Iran Neolithisation model.
Why it mattersEarliest Fars Neolithic (Mushki) bridging Zagros to Bakun.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Mushki–Zagros relationship?
Theories
- 01Ramjerd basin local Neolithisation
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.6000 BCE Mushki hamlet
- Period
- Neolithic–Chalcolithic (c.6000–4500 BCE, Mushki–Bashi–Bakun)
- Culture
- Fars Neolithic Mushki → Bashi → Bakun
- Builders
- Ramjerd early farmers
- Purpose
- Basin-edge farming hamlet before Bakun consolidation
- Abandoned
- c.4500 BCE
- Rediscovered
- 2006 Bernbeck–Fazeli
- Excavation
- Excavation ongoing
c.6000 BCE
Mushki red ware hamlet
c.5200 BCE
Bashi phase transition
c.4500 BCE
Abandoned before Bakun expansion
On the ground
Structures & features
29.9500° N · 52.5800° E · 1580 m · 3 mapped features
Tol-e Bashi — Mushki level
houseRed geometric Mushki ware houses
29.9505° N · 52.5800° ETol-e Bashi — Bashi transition
layerBashi intermediate pottery layer
29.9500° N · 52.5805° ETol-e Bashi — Basin edge midden
middenFaunal botanical midden
29.9495° N · 52.5795° E
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