Sedimentological data sets from the prehistoric site of Ajor Pazi (northern Iran)

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During a rescue excavation in 2018, 136 sedimentary bulk samples were collected from sediment cross-sections at the prehistoric site of Ajor Pazi (northern Iran). This study aimed to understand the prehistoric human-environmental interactions in an active fluvial fan setting. Using radiocarbon and luminescence-dated sedimentary cross sections, we applied multivariate statistics to sedimentological characteristics (magnetic susceptibility, grain size, remission, total organic and total inorganic carbon, and X-ray fluorescence) interpreted in terms of depositional facies. Based on numerical and material dating and facies interpretation, the first settlement activities must have occurred between 6.4 - 5.6 ka cal. BP (4.4 - 3.6 ka cal. BCE), which archaeologically falls into the Transitional Chalcolithic II period.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.961075
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21995
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Provenance
Creator Busch, Robert ORCID logo; Bernbeck, Reinhard; Hessari, Morteza; Kirsten, Fabian ORCID logo; Lüthgens, Christopher; Pollock, Susan; Rol, Nolwen; Schütt, Brigitta
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 424609853 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/424609853 Mobile villages and dynamic landscapes: the Varamin Plain from the late 5th to the early 3rd mill.
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 4435 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (51.723W, 35.252S, 51.724E, 35.252N); Iran
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-08-26T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z