Between 1969 and 1978 Wolfram Kleiss, director of the German Archaeological Institute in Tehran, excavated the Urartian fortress at Bastam in co-operation with a team of archaeologist from Iran, Germany, Italy, Canada and the United States. In Addition, from 1967 onwards, he conducted many surveys in Northwestern Iran, covering not only Urartian remains, but all periods from the Neolithic onwards. Probably more than 1000 places of all periods were visited by him, surface finds were collected and plans were drawn. Most of these places were published in numerous articles in the "Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran". Between 1989 and 1991 Stephan Kroll was able to go back to Tehran and work on the prehistoric surface material, collected in the German Institute. Here we try for the first time, to publish a summary of these researches, specially for colleagues in Iran and other countries, where access to German publications is often difficult.
Archaeologcal Sites in Maku Province (German version, first part)
Recent Publications:
Stephan
Kroll: “Early Bronze Age settlement patterns in the
Stephan
Kroll: "The Southern
Urmia Basin in the Early Iron Age”, Iranica Antiqua 40, 2005, 65-85.
Stephan Kroll: “Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Maku and Khoy Regions
of Iranian
Stephan
Kroll: “Aurel Stein in Hasan Ali. Bemalte frühbronzezeitliche Keramik im
Gebiet des Urmia-Sees: 'Hasan Ali Ware'”, in: A View from the Highlands: Archaeological
Studies in Honour of Charles Burney (Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement
no. 12) edited by Antonio
Sagona, Peeters Press:
Stephan
Kroll: "Medes
and Persians in Transcaucasia: archaeological
horizons in northwestern-Iran and
Stephan Kroll: "Nordwest-Iran
in achaimenidischer Zeit. Zur Verbreitung der Classic Triangle Ware“, Archaeologische
Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan, 32, 2000 (2001), 131-138.
Other provinces are still:
Stephan Kroll, 10-May-2010