INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
discovered evidence of early urbanization which coincides with the Uruk period (ca
archaeological excavation season which, has just come to an end in the Kale-Kub archaeological site, situated in Sarayan county of South
the 4thmillennium BC has been an important debate for decades and with recent scientific findings, a revival of this intellectual discussion
Many archaeologists suggest that urban societies first emerged in southern Mesopotamia, and then expanded to the north and
northwest.Furthermore, evidence of early [cuneiform] script came to light during the survey, which also yielded pottery pieces such as the
shed new light on people who lived there some 6,000 years ago
to trace the possible routes for this pottery style to the East and the interaction between the east and west of Iran.In modern Iran, these
the extension of this culture to the east part of Iran.Inter-regional interactions had a significant effect on the movement of raw material
and production in the extended area
Because of the geographical situation of Kale-Kub in the east of Iran and the existence of metal mines in the region, this site possibly
appeared as a supplier place in the interaction networks for the southwest of Iran during the fourth millennium BC.Referring to previous
first well-documented evidence of human habitation in the Iranian plateau was found from several excavated cave and rock-shelter sites,
located mainly in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran and dated to Middle Paleolithic or Mousterian times (c
100,000 BC).From the Caspian in the northwest to Baluchistan in the southeast, the Iranian plateau extends for close to 2,000 km
The land encompasses the greater part of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan west of the Indus River containing some 3,700,000 square kilometers
mountain range at 5610 m, and the Dasht-e Loot east of Kerman in Central Iran falling below 300 m.AFM
