Habitation Sites
Small-scale excavations in two such sites—MPS 103 and MPS 5—uncovered buildings
constructed from hand-shaped elongated rectangular mudbricks. In MPS 103, a series of rectilin-
ear cubicles contained standing storage jars (Fig. 7). In MPS 5, the compartment-like structures
contained a mixed fill with ceramics and small figurines. The domestic character of the assem-
blages and the size of the constructions make it most likely that these sites represent habitation
sites, but with the limited exposure, this may be but one function.
A Central Platform: Kamiltepe
Kamiltepe is the most visible of the Neolithic sites in the Mil Steppe, forming a settlement
mound on a spur of the first river terrace of the Qaraçay Stream.
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Preserved to a height of 2.6
26 Lisa Shillito, “Preliminary Microstratigraphic Observations of Ash Deposits and Architectural Materials at Kamil-
tepe, Azerbaijan,” Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 44 (2012): 31–37.
27 Christine Chataigner, La Transcaucasie au Néolithique et au Chalcolithique, British Archaeological Reports Inter-
national Series 624 (Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1995), 67–69.
28 Svend Hansen and Michael Ullrich, “Report on the 2012–2014 Excavation Campaign in Aruchlo,” in The Kura
Projects: New Research on the Later Prehistory of the Southern Caucasus, ed. Barbara Helwing et al., Archäologie
in Iran und Turan 16 (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 2017), 204–11, figs. 8, 9, 23, 24.
29 Ilia Heit, “Die Neolithische Muschelperlenwerkstatt Aus Fundstelle MPS 4: Archäologische Und Technologische
Untersuchungen,” in The Kura Projects: New Research on the Later Prehistory of the Southern Caucasus, ed. Bar-
bara Helwing et al., Archäologie in Iran und Turan 16 (Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 2017), 73–123.
30 Tevekkül Aliyev and Barbara Helwing, “Kamiltepe in der Milebene: Archäologische Untersuchungen 2009,” Ar-
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