comprehensive study of songhor plain, central zagros (in persian)
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Comprehensive Study of Songhor Plain
Sayed Mehdi Mousavi Kohpar*, Mahmood Heydarian **
* Asst Prof, Dept of Archaeology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran.
** PhD student, Dept of Archeology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran. [email protected]
Abstract
Kermanshah province is one of the most important cultural zone of Iran, which has prominent
quota in the cultural development of the Zagros and Iran Western from prehistoric times to
Islamic period. Archaeological documents of this region have been discovered from a number of
caves such as Khar & Varvasi and also several archaeological sites such as, Sarab, Ganj Dareh,
Segabi, Asiab, Godin, Chogh gavane etc. In spite of long time archaeological studies in central
Zagros and Kermanshah province and after a century of archeological activities, Songhor plain,
with an area about 950 km2 is a few districts of the province, which remained unknown and due
to lack of archeological information particularly regarding the presence of the earliest groups,
their formations and settlements patterns, transition, trade and relations of one area with another
and various other problems highlighted in the completion of this research. In the first phase, this
paper, through studying on data collected from in two seasons field survey of Songhor plane,
attempts to introduce different cultural periods of the region and their continuity and
discontinuance. The next focus of this paper will be on prehistoric, historic and Islamic
settlement patterns.
Keywords: Archaeological survey, Central Zagros, Songhor plain, Prehistory, Settlement.
