The Center of the Iranian Plateau during the Early Bronze Age: New Archaeological Excavations in the Eastern Zone of the Zāyandehrud River Basin, Varzaneh (original) (raw)

Harrassowitz Verlag eBooks, 2023

Abstract

The Archaeology Department at Art University of Isfahan has set up a new archaeological project in the lower part (eastern zone) of the Zāyandehrud River basin. The studied area is a plain situated at a distance from 5 to 10 km south of the river and about 30 km east of the Gāvkhūni playa that is the terminal basin of Zāyandehrud. The new systemic archaeological surveys (2018, 2019 and 2020) resulted in the discovery of more than 200 archaeological sites dated from the Early Bronze Age to the Islamic period. Three sites, i.e. Nos. 006, 013 and 051, have been excavated aiming to understand the chronology and material culture of the area. The preliminary analysis of data and the comparative studies of findings show that the two excavated sites (013 and 051) belong to the Early Bronze Age in the 3rd millennium BCE and reveal a cultural connection between the studied area and the Eastern Fars region, Khuzestan, South-eastern Iran and Central Zagros during the Early Bronze Age.

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