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Location:

  • Iran (Islamic Republic of), Gortavīch-e ‘Olyā
  • geo:34.603748,47.266308
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -9800~ / -7600~

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=34214

Annotations

The importance of these sites lies in their early date and long occupation spanning c. 9800-7600 cal BC, and in their location on the most important route-way through the Zagros, later the Silk Road.

The Zagros mountain region and 'hilly flanks' are of major importance to the study of early sedentism and the origins of agriculture, as a heartland of wild animals and plants that were later domesticated. Research here in the 1950-60s was seminal in developing theories on the Neolithic transformation (Braidwood 1961). Principal among these was a proposed 'broad-spectrum revolution' in use of plant and animal resources (Flannery 1969).

www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/matthews323/


Nearby

Dînavar (15 km)

Ancient town of Dinavar. Archeological site almost completely destroyed by agriculture.

Unidentified site (20 km)

Probable settlement. Located with satellite imagery.

Warwasi (22 km)

Paleolithic rockshelter site


This object was added by Ludwinski on 2017-01-19. Last update by Elżbieta on 2018-11-01. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/34214 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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