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Sarlak S. Qom Plain in the Early Bronze Age. Archaelogy 2024; 4 (1) : 4
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Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Tehran, Iran. , siamaksarlak88@gmail.com
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Archaeological evidence suggests that the Qom Plain was mainly under the influence of two significant and developed cultural phenomena in the Early Bronze Age, i.e. the Proto-Elamite culture (the Early Bronze Age I) and the Early Transcaucasian or Kura-Araxes (the Early Bronze Age II), especially in terms of geographical expansion in diverse natural landscapes. These two phenomena were amongst the most developed cultures of the Early Bronze Age in Southwest Asia, especially in terms of their geographical expansion in diverse natural landscapes. Recent fieldworks in the Iranian Central Plateau have provided significant evidence for the expansion of the Proto-Elamite culture into this region. These fieldworks also attest to the Proto-Elamite cultural expansion beyond the Central Plateau region towards the northwest and northeast of Iran. Extending from its origin in the Caucasus region to eastern Anatolia, the Levant, and northwestern and western Iran, the Early Transcaucasian culture (Kura-Araxes) has also been identified and studied in the Qom Plain, Central Iranian Plateau. Based on current archaeological evidence, it seems that the Qom Plain represents the southernmost expansion of the Early Transcaucasian in the Iranian Plateau. In the stratigraphic sequence of the Qoli-Darvish site, period II represents the Proto-Elamite period, and period IIIA indicates the development of some cultural elements of the Early Transcaucasian in this area. Moreover, a cemetery with the burial tradition of the Early Transcaucasian culture was recently identified and explored in Khave village in the mountainous region south of the Qom Plain. In the present article, I discuss the Early Transcaucasian cultural remains in these two different but related archaeological contexts (settlement and cemetery), and explore the nature and identity elements of the Proto-Elamite and Early Transcaucasian cultural phenomena, and their relationship.
Article number: 4
Type of Study: Original Research Article |
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Pre Historic
Received: 2024/04/7 | Accepted: 2024/06/16 | Published: 2024/06/20
Received: 2024/04/7 | Accepted: 2024/06/16 | Published: 2024/06/20
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