INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-- On the event of National Womens Day, the National Museum of Iran has actually placed on show a 7,000-year-old clay figurine of a
mother hugging her child.Found in the late Neolithic site of Zagheh at the northwestern periphery of main Iran
According to organizers, the 7,000 years old figurine is the earliest representation of a mother and kid discovered in Iran
This figure is the only discovered example of Iranian ancient art that reveals a mom with a child in her arms, the director of the
prominent museum informed visitors throughout the opening ceremony hung on Wednesday.Coinciding with Womens Day, the National Museum of Iran
chose to expose among the most important and unique works of its treasure in the kind of a single exhibit, Jebrael Nokandeh
stated.Archaeologists have uncovered this figurine from an engraved building called Niayeshgah ( Place of Worship , which has to do with
seven thousand years of ages, in Tepe Zagheh of the Qazvin plain
It is made of baked clay and shows a mother with a kid in her arms
The mothers head is extended and nearly cone-shaped, and her eyes are represented by several grooves
The kid was made independently from shot clay and added to the body, Nokandeh described
This figure is the only discovered example of Iranian prehistoric art that shows a mom with a child in her arms
The carver has actually revealed the kid in the moms arms so creatively that in spite of its little size, it stimulates a mothers
psychological sensation towards her kid to the audience, and perhaps to emphasize this issue, the artist creatively crossed the border of
naturalism by showing this mom with four hands, he said.This very little ancient historical work informs the story of more than 7 thousand
years of Irans rich culture and civilization, Nokandeh said.The exhibition will be running through January 20, he said.Situated in the
Sagzabad district of Boueen Zahra county in Qazvin province, c
60 km south of Qazvin city and 140 km west of Tehran, Tepe Zagheh is among the key websites of the transitional duration from Neolithic to
Chalcolithic in the Qazvin plain.The settlement at Zagheh existed for a substantial quantity of time, roughly 9 hundred years, from 5200 to
4400 or 4300 BC, according to outright and relative chronology.Nearly 3 thousand years had passed by this point, during which the village
had actually been developed and agriculture had actually advanced because tokens had become recognized and recognized and had actually begun
to be utilized in the system of numeration and accounting.Evidence from many excavations and interdisciplinary studies suggests that Zagheh
had actually a ranked society where social stratification was institutionalised which the society was in the Chalcolithic to Neolithic
transitional period.The Neolithic, also called the New Stone Age, is the final stage of cultural development or technological advancement
amongst prehistoric human beings
It was characterized by stone tools formed by polishing or grinding, reliance on domesticated plants or animals, settlement in permanent
towns, and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving
The Neolithic followed the Paleolithic Period, or the age of chipped-stone tools, and preceded the Bronze Age, or the early duration of
