Chronological Study of the Chalcolithic Potteries from Khole-Kū in Takestan

Khole-Kū is located in the south of Takestan and on the border of Qazvin plain. This site was sounding during an archaeological project in the spring of 2011. The pottery materials found by this excavation indicated for the site to have been succesivly occupied from prehistory to Islamic periods. In this article we performed a classification framework based on the typological characteristics of the prehistoric potteries by which four types of ceramics were identified: simple, painted, standard and Cheshmeh Ali types. In order to gain a relative chronology for the different types we compared them with those potteries of Central Plateau in the same horizon. According to the relative chronology and pottery similarities, the prehistoric materials of Khole-Kū can be placed in the Late Transitional Chalcolithic period that is dated at 5200-4600 BC.