| These typically have excellent parallels with excavated and surveyed assemblages from sites in the Kur River Basin, where they have been dated to the early- mid and late fourth millennium B.C respectively. What has been interpreted as a Transitional Lapui-Banesh phase, characterised by a Lapui-type ceramic assemblage and a number of non-local forms, including a fragment of a bevel-rim bowl, was identified between the Lapui and Banesh phase deposits.Various features of the ceramic assemblages are worthy of note, particularly the discovery that the red-slipped buff version of Lapui Fine Ware only appeared in the later Lapui phases, and that a red-slipped ware continued to be used in the Transitional Lapui-Banesh and Banesh phases.That these later red-slipped ware fragments were not residual in the Banesh period is emphasised by the fact that many of these red-slipped frarments have good parallels with Banesh period forms that typically appear in other wares.This is also supported by the co-occurrence of red-slipped and Banesh wares in the early Banesh phases at the nearby site of Tol-e Nurabad.The continuity of the red-slipped buff ware has particular significance for the interpretation of survey data, at least in the Mamasani region. |
