Prehistory of Iran
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The prehistory of the Iranian plateau is conventionally divided into the Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age periods. It spans the time from the first settlem
Biface (trihedral) Amar Merdeg, Mehran, Lower Paleolithic, National Museum of Iran
Clay human figurine (Fertility goddess) Tappeh Sarab, Kermanshah ca. 7000–6100 BC, Neolithic period, National Museum of Iran
Neolithic sites in Iran
Pottery vessel, fourth millennium B.C. Zagros National Museum of Iran.
Tepe Sialk
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Tepe Sialk is a large ancient archeological site in a suburb of Kashan, Isfahan province, central Iran, close to the Fin Garden. The culture that inhabited this area has been linked to the Zayandeh Ri
Prehistory of Iran
…jars of wine excavated in the Zagros Mountains (now on display at The University of Pennsylvania) and ruins of 7,000-year-old settlements such as Sialk are further testament to that. Early agricultural communities such as Chogha Golan in 10,000 BC along with settlements such as Chogha Bonut (the earliest…
The southern mound of Tepe Sialk, showing the remains of the stepped structure.
Economic tablet with numeric signs. Proto-Elamite script in clay, Susa, Uruk period (3200 BC to 2700 BC). Department of Oriental Antiquities, Louvre.
Details of the wall of the second platform of the first tepe
Ghirshman's team in Sialk in 1934; seated from R to L: Roman Ghirshman, Tania Ghirshman, and Dr. Contenau