Geoy Tepe (also Gök Tepe) is an archaeological site in northwestern Iran, about 7 kilometers south of Urmia (Reżāʾīya), Gug Tappeh. It was found by an aerial survey of ancient sites in Persia done by Erich Schmidt in the 1930s.
Location | Iran |
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Region | West Azerbaijan province |
Coordinates | 37°31′05″N 45°08′43″E / 37.518056°N 45.145278°E |
Type | tell |
History | |
Abandoned | 1200 BC |
Periods | Early Bronze Age |
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The site's mound is 80 feet tall and is situated by a natural spring. T. Burton Brown of Great Britain excavated the site in August 1948. It was found to have been continuously occupied from the 4th millennium BCE until 1200 BCE.[1]
Remains of the earliest stage of the Kura–Araxes culture have been found here.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ BURTON-BROWN, T. \95l. Excavations in Azerbaijan, 1948. John Murray, London