The central and northern Zagros during the Late Chalcolithic

An updated ceramic chronology based on recent fieldwork results in western Iran

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ID6016552
AutoresSteve Renette (0000-0002-0563-9829), Sirvan Mohammadi Ghasrian
Ano2020
Fascículo46 1-2
Páginas109-132
Data de publicação2020-12-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPaléorient (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0153-9345 • E-ISSN: 1957-701X
EditoraOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/paleorient.366
OpenAlexW4205138818
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas37

In the past two decades, Iranian archaeologists have conducted numerous surveys and stratigraphic soundings throughout the Zagros region of western Iran. Their published work is gradually filling in the major geographical and chronological gaps in our knowledge of the Late Chalcolithic period. At the same time, new research on this period in the Zagros Piedmont of Iraqi Kurdistan is rapidly producing large amounts of data. Unfortunately, scholarship between the two regions is divided by a national border and a linguistic barrier in publications, which still obstructs necessary communication. This article summarises the current state of knowledge on the Late Chalcolithic in the northern and central Zagros Mountains in order to bridge this artificial divide. Based on the results of Iranian archaeological projects, we propose an updated chronological framework for the Zagros that is in line with recent Mesopotamian and central Iranian models

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze Age · Chalcolithic · Chronology · Geography · Period (music · Scholarship · Southern Levant · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology