Archaeological Study on the Early Urban Civilization in Saudi Arabia

该项目的目的是阐明沿沙特阿拉伯海岸和伊朗东南部的早期城市文明的问题。这些地区在公元前4千年晚期通过国际贸易网络受到了来自南美索不达米亚的基本影响。这个网络首先是由乌鲁克和埃兰人组织的”（第一个过程），在适当的时候，土著文化占据了核心地位。并形成了贸易城市（第二个过程）。1991年，我们调查了位于克尔曼以东约30公里的沙赫达德（Shahdad）遗址，它位于卡维尔-卢特河的边缘。实验结果如下：1)有许多碎片的红色平原陶器和：黑色和红色彩绘陶器可追溯到3世纪末。但乌鲁克风格的陶器，比如斜边碗，却完全不存在。2)沙赫达德山谷没有同时代或更早的遗址。我们可以初步推测，克尔曼地区的第一个城市化进程出现在Tall-i Iblis周围的丘陵地区。沙赫达德的形成是在第二个过程之下。

The objective of the project is to throw light on the problems of the early urban civilizations along Saudi Arabian coast and in Southeast Iran. These areas received fundamental influences from South Mesopotamia through the international networks of trade in the late 4th millennium B. C. This networks was firstly organized by the people of Uruk and Elam"(the first process), and in due course the indigenous cultures took nuclei position it. and formed trading cities (the second process).We investigated the site of Shahdad, some 30km east of Kerman, on the very edge of the Kavir-i Lut in 1991. The results were as follows ;1) There are many sherds of Red Plain Pottery and : Black-on Red painted pottery dated to the late 3rd. millennium B. C., but Uruk-inspired pottery, like bevelled-rim bowl, is totally absent.2) The Shahdad valley contains no site of contemporaneous or previous date. We can tentatively speculate that the first process of urbanism in Kerman district was seen in the hilly area around Tall-i Iblis. and the formation of Shahdad was under the second process.