Tepe Sialk settlement in central Peria [Iran] dates back to sixth millenium BC . Both of the mounds of Sialk settlement were excavated by a French expedition directed by Roman Ghirshman between 1933 and 1937.
See:
- Contenau Georges. Les fouilles de Sialk en Iran [R. Ghirshman. Fouilles de Sialk près de Kashan, 1933, 1934, 1937 (Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités Orientales, Série archéologique. T. IV et V)]. In: Journal des savants, Avril-juin 1941. pp. 64-75.
- Arkadiusz Sołtysiak, Hassan Fazeli: Tepe Sialk (Iran), seasons 2008-2009, Bioarchaeology of the Near East 4 (2010) , pp. 69–73