Sassanian burials in the Tang-i Bulaghi valley: An archaeo-anthropological approch (Far, Iran),

International audienceUpon the construction of the great Sivand Dam (near the prestigious site of Pasargadae), an archaeological survey followed by rescue excavations took place between 2005 and 2007 in the Pulvar River Valley (Tang-i Bulaghi plain), on a 17 km long route. At the request of the Iranian authorities, several joint international teams — Iranian-Italian, German, Polish, and French — worked for several months on sites pre-viously identified by local teams during ICHTO surveys (Iran Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization).In this article, we will present the preliminary results of the excavation of a few representative tombs from Necropolis T-88, dated to the Sassanian period