Hajji Firuz Tepe

Hajji Firuz Tepe
Hajji Firuz Tepe is located in Near East
Hajji Firuz Tepe
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Hajji Firuz Tepe is located in Iran
Hajji Firuz Tepe
Hajji Firuz Tepe (Iran)
LocationIran
RegionWest Azarbaijan province
Coordinates36°59′40″N 45°28′28″E / 36.9944°N 45.4744°E / 36.9944; 45.4744
Typetell
Length200 metres (660 ft)
Width140 metres (460 ft)
Height10.3 metres (34 ft)
History
PeriodsNeolithic, Chalcolithic, Late Bronze Age/Iron Age, Islamic
Site notes
Excavation dates1936, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1968
ArchaeologistsA. Stein, C. Burney, T. Cuyler Young Jr., R.H. Dyson, Mary M. Voigt

Hajji Firuz Tepe is an archaeological site located in West Azarbaijan Province in north-western Iran and lies in the north-western part of the Zagros Mountains. The site was excavated between 1958 and 1968 by archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The excavations revealed a Neolithic village that was occupied in the second half of the sixth millennium BC where some of the oldest archaeological evidence of grape-based wine was discovered in the form of organic residue in a pottery jar.[1][2]