ABSTRACT
The term 'Elam' seems to designate a collection of ill-defined territories that extended over Susiana and the Zagros mountain range as far as the border of the central Iranian desert. During the less documented first half of the first millennium BC, the so-called Neo-Elamite period, Elam's territory shrunk more or less to the northeastern lowland of modern Khuzestan before it finally became incorporated in the Persian Empire. This chapter offers observations on funerary practices within the extensive area as they appear in the archaeological documentation from approximately the mid-third millennium BC down into the first millennium. Access to the funerary chamber of both Tombs 1 and 2 was blocked by a large stone slab, while access to Tomb 3 was open. According to the pottery therein, the three tombs are contemporaneous and belong to the occupation period of the site.
