Yarim Tepe is a Neolithic settlement in the eastern Gorgan plain, Golestan Province.

This ancient settlement played a big role in establishing the cultural chronology of the neolithic period in Central Asia.

[1] There are many cultural similarities between Yarim and the nearby site of Tureng Tepe of the same age.

Just like at Tureng Tepe, in the earliest horizon, there occur Jeitun-like ceramics, that are found mostly in the Koppet Dag mountains area,[2] but also at several other contemporary sites in the Gorgan plain, for example in the Hotu cave, and even further west near Behshahr.

In North-central Iran, this period is known as ‘Transitional Chalcolithic’, and it is parallel to Sialk II stratum.