Marlik Culture
The site of Marlik is one that gives so much valuable information about a culture that lived so long ago, yet very few seem to know about the site and what it can tell us about a culture long gone. The site has given so much to the study of archaeology and is one of the richest excavated graveyards in Iranian history, and some have argued, the best-documented ancient cemetery in the entire Near East. (iranica) Because of its immense significance and vast documentation, (MET Culture) it is hard to report the details of everything that is contained in this site. However, what can be given is the general overview of the site, trials encountered when excavating the site, and some of the assumptions made about the people and the culture from recovered
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Scholars assume they seem to have flourished from the second to first millennia BCE, around the same time as the last of the Middle Assyrian kings. No writing about these people have been found on the site, and other surrounding groups with written records have never mentioned this area around the time the culture has been assumed to have flourished. No written records of the Marlik culture exist, nor are there any others concerning the area at this particular period. (MET) The use of the term, “Marlik culture”, is used to speak of the manmade archeological evidence found at the mound, the term “Marlik” is simply used because there is no clear connection to an established ethnic group thus the site must be assumed to be distinctive until clearly linked to one group or another. (iranica) Documentation from the ninth century B.C.E, does exist with these Assyrian records telling of the Mannaens and Medes in the northwest Iran, and either of these groups could have a connection to Marlik. (MET) However, Negahbān believes that the site of Marlik is connected to either the Mardoi or Amardoi tribe who are mentioned by Classical authors as occupying this region during the Achaemenid times. Another scholar Malekzadeh, argues that Mārlik was part of the ancient petty kingdom of “Andia” mentioned in Neo-Assyrian
Scholars assume they seem to have flourished from the second to first millennia BCE, around the same time as the last of the Middle Assyrian kings. No writing about these people have been found on the site, and other surrounding groups with written records have never mentioned this area around the time the culture has been assumed to have flourished. No written records of the Marlik culture exist, nor are there any others concerning the area at this particular period. (MET) The use of the term, “Marlik culture”, is used to speak of the manmade archeological evidence found at the mound, the term “Marlik” is simply used because there is no clear connection to an established ethnic group thus the site must be assumed to be distinctive until clearly linked to one group or another. (iranica) Documentation from the ninth century B.C.E, does exist with these Assyrian records telling of the Mannaens and Medes in the northwest Iran, and either of these groups could have a connection to Marlik. (MET) However, Negahbān believes that the site of Marlik is connected to either the Mardoi or Amardoi tribe who are mentioned by Classical authors as occupying this region during the Achaemenid times. Another scholar Malekzadeh, argues that Mārlik was part of the ancient petty kingdom of “Andia” mentioned in Neo-Assyrian