Tappa Gawri is an
archaeological site in the
Kermanshah, in
Iran, about 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 by and about high. The southern mound is by and about high. The site was recorded during an initial season of archaeological research in the Kermanshah and Mahidasht valleys, in the summer of 1975, by a team directed by Louis D. Levine from the
Royal Ontario Museum
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, with the assistance of the Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research.
[Levine, L. D. (1974). Archaeological Investigations in the Mahidasht Western Iran-1975. Paléorient, 2(2), 487-490.] They found surface archaeological material date to
Chalcolithic,
Bronze Age,
Iron Age,
Parthian Parthian may be:
Historical
* A demonym "of Parthia", a region of north-eastern of Greater Iran
* Parthian Empire (247 BC – 224 AD)
* Parthian language, a now-extinct Middle Iranian language
* Parthian shot, an archery skill famously employed by ...
, and
Sassanian periods.
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1975 archaeological discoveries
Archaeological sites in Iran
National works of Iran
Prehistoric Iran
Kermanshah
Populated places established in the 5th millennium BC
Populated places disestablished in the 1st millennium BC
Former populated places in Iran