Zagros Archaeological Researches

Zagros Archaeological Researches

Bronze Age of Central Zagros with a focus on the Western Pish-E Koh

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
Abstract
The Bronze Age of Central Zagros is one of the most important archaeological periods of Central Zagros, both in terms of the time and distribution field, as well as the large number of settlements and cemeteries. The western Pish-E Koh site, with the center of the Kouhdasht plain, is one of the sites that have been less studied in the Bronze Age. This article is based on the archaeological activities carried out by archaeologists and tries to deal with the settlement patterns of Bronze Age sites in this region of Central Zagros. DarbGonbad district of Kouhdasht was surveyed by the author and the sites identified by other archaeologists were used only for statistical analysis. 104 sites identified by other researchers and the author from the Bronze Age were examined in the article. In this research, using the results of field, library and descriptive-analytical studies, the reasons for localization and the settlement patterns of the sites of the Bronze Age in the western Pish-E Koh were discussed. In addition to settlement patterns, the explanation of the intra-regional cultural of the central Zagros basin in the Bronze Age was also discussed. The main question of the article is, what patterns does the distribution of Bronze Age sites in the studied site follow? As a result, it was found that the Bronze Age sites of the western Pish-E Koh have increased both in number and size compared to the previous period. Also, patterns such as the formation of a cemetery and settlement in a settlement context and the presence of some key and large sites in the center of each mountainous plain can play the role of the central sites.

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