The 2015-2016 survey campaigns at Pasargadae: results and observations on the Cyrus’ capital layout and its latter évolutions
Résumé
Following the 1999-2008 archaeological survey campaigns at Pasargadae, in 2015 an Iranian-French team resumed fieldwork on the site and its surrounding territory. This article focuses on data gathered during two research campaigns at Pasargadae implemented during the fall of 2015 and 2016. The methods used for mapping Pasargadae are complementary and multidisciplinary: geophysics, to-pography, aerial survey, pedestrian survey, mapping and analysis of the surface pottery. Combined together, the preliminary data, which are still being processed, shed new light on the archaeological landscape of Pasargadae. They allow us to draw new perspectives on Achaemenid Pasargadae and later evolutions of its landscape: the layout of the park at Pasargadae was more extensively mapped northeast of the Royal Garden and possible remains of the town connected to the Achaemenid Royal Area were discovered east of the site, and a rich dataset was compiled to suggest a reconstruction for the north part of the site where, around the Tol-e Takht hill, two settled areas might correspond to developments in the post-Achaemenid and Early Medieval periods.
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Archéologie et PréhistoireOrigine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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