Tall-e Bakun

🕰️When was it built?

People lived at Tall-e Bakun from about 7,500 years ago until about 5,400 years ago. The site was added to the National Heritage List on 9 July 1932 as number 189. Ernst Herzfeld excavated it in 1933, and the remains of prehistoric life here were studied.

🏛️What was it built for?

Tall-e Bakun was the home and workplace of a prehistoric community. Some houses shared one or two walls, and groups of houses opened onto a shared open space. Twelve storerooms and a building that held more than a hundred seals have also been found, which point to the storing and managing of goods.

👀What you will see

• The remains of the house walls are made of mud brick and straw, and some houses share a wall.
• On some of the walls found, decoration in parallel coloured bands has been seen.
• Open spaces between groups of houses linked them with each other.
• Twelve storerooms have been found in the excavations, showing part of how this settlement was organised.

💡Something interesting

The designs on Bakun pottery are usually simple and stylised. Among them is a cross shape, sometimes set inside a circle or square. These are among the geometric patterns on the pottery found at the site.

🎒Good to know before you go

• If you see a piece of pottery or an old object on the ground, don't move it, and don't take anything from the site.