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A number of prehistoric sites, Tal-i Mushki and Tal-i Jarri A and B located at the mountaneous alluvium in Mary Dasht, Fars district, were once investigated by Dr. Vanden Berghe.(1) Afterwards, our Japanese Archaeological Mission excavated Tal-i Jarri A site in 1961 and again in 1971. The preliminary report of the first season was already given.(2) In addition to it, the results of the second season, especially from the stratigraphical point of view, shall be given below. Tal-i Jarri A is a round shaped mound about 100m in diametre and 2.5m rising above the present surface of land. Its cultural deposit measures about 6m in thickness before reaching the virgin soil. Three different period levels were unearthed during the two excavations. Level I In Level I, several building layers were revealed. The square plans of straw-tempered sun-dried brick buildings from the upper layer in Sections C and D are shown on Plates VIII (a) and VIII (b). Black-on-buff painted pottery and straw-tempered coarse ware were obtained from this level. The former was decorated with geometric patterns and human-shaped designs (Pl. III-1-20). This painted pottery is the same type as that from Tal-i Gap(3) and Tal-i Bakun A(4) in Mary Dasht, paralleled with the Sialk III pottery. Bone implements such as long or short points, clay spindle-wheels (Pl. VI-15-17) and chipped stone artifacts including flint blades and sickles and obsidian (Pl. VII) were unearthed. Stone and clay stamp seals with geometric

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