Talk:Tepe Sialk

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Major Mistakes means this requires a rewrite

This is an email I got from one of the current investigators on Sialk.

Original Message -----

From: "DAI Eurasien-Abteilung, PD Dr. Barbara Helwing" <bh@eurasien.dainst.de> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:46 AM Subject: Re: Dating of the Sialk ziggurat

Here is a brief answer to your question on the dating of the Sialk grande construction. Please know that it is not a ziqqurat but a mudbrick platform, possibly a support for some kind of building standing atop the platform but not necessarily a temple. It dates to the 8th century BC. Some archaeologists have claimed that it dates to the 3rd millennium BC, and it is listed as such in wikipedia, but this is wrong. The dating suggested in the 1930s to the later Iron Age by the excavator, R, Ghirshman, still holds; the Sialk Reconsideration Project run by Dr. Malek Shahmirzadi has dated it to the 3rd millennium BC on the basis of excavating through the backdirt left behind by Ghirshman, which contained som stamp impressions (again wrongly) compared to protoelamite seals. The stamps compare well to Iron Age pottery painting motifs, and the pottery assemblage from the backdirt is mixed. So, solid eviden for a date in the 8th century BC, and not a ziqqurat either.

I hope this helps. Best regards, Barbara Helwing

Mistakes

This article is plenty of mistakes about figures: 7,500 BC is not 6th millennium, but 8th millennium;; or 2,000 years of present Era + 1,350 years old of an ziggurat is not 5,000 years ago, and so... - Montes or IP 213 60 60 73, 1:45 local hour, 22 October 08

Exposition of information

The article could be improved considerable if an internal structure is given to its content (that is, subsections as in here), more noninline references, and a more technical archaeological description of the. Omnipaedista (talk) 15:16, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]