Structure and Architecture of Graves in South East Iran

The present paper intends to analyse ancient local society, as a result of migration and cultural communication between various ethnic groups throughout the eastern part of the Iranian Plateau. Based on the results of excavations in the cemetery of Shahr-i Sokhta, offerings, tools and skeletons were examined. The alignment and positioning of the buried bodies changed over the centuries as a consequence of people with different ethnic backgrounds migrating to the site along the commercial routes connecting Central Asia in the north with Baluchistan and the coastal regions of the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, as well as between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. The study suggests at least five different geographical origins of Shahr-i Sokhta's inhabitants in the third millennium

Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnic group · Geography · Indus · Mesopotamia · Persian · Plateau (mathematics) · Sociology · Ancient Near East History · Anthropology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Geology · History · Paleontology