ABSTRACT
The Sumbar Archeological Expedition of the Leningrad Sector of the Institute of Archeology, USSR Academy of Sciences, began intensive excavations along the middle course of the Sumbar River, a tributary of the Atrek that joins it on its right side, in 1969 with excavations of the Iron Age settlement Parkhai-tepe. 1 Then for six field seasons, 1972–77, the expedition investigated the Late Bronze Age cemeteries: Sumbar I, Sumbar II, and Parkhai I; information about this work has appeared in numerous scientific publications. 2 A full report of these excavations with an interpretation of the materials from all the investigated levels is now ready to be published. Having finished our study of the Late Bronze Age cemeteries, we shifted our focus to cemeteries of earlier periods.
