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<< News >> Paleolithic Residency Traced in Bushehr Province

Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 19 September 2007  Page Views: 31789

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For the first time, during excavating operations in city of Jam-o Riz in Bushehr province, Iranian archeologists have succeeded in tracing evidence of human beings settlement dating back to Paleolithic epoch to Middle Stone Age (40,000-10,000 years ago) in this region. Prior to this, some excavations were conducted by British archeologists in different parts of Bushehr province.

“Archeological excavations in Jam-o Riz city in southern and northern slides of midst mountain plain resulted in discovering evidence belonging to Paleolithic, and Middle Stone Age periods,” said Abdolreza Dashtizadeh, head of archeology team in Jam-o Riz city to CHN.

He further explained that 16 prehistoric sites have been discovered during these excavations, among which 6 enjoys a high archeological potential to be studied in detail.

Discovery of prehistoric evidence, the majority of which are consisted of stone tools used by cave dwelling human beings, shed light into existence of human beings residency in this area about 40,000 years ago.

“Alongside archeological excavations, we conducted some anthropological researches in the area which led us to conclude that stone instruments were used by the local people of this area until 40 years ago. These researches completed our archeological studies,” added head of excavation team in Jam-o Riz city.

These researches show that the local people used a kind of flint stone which is called Bardtash in local language means fire stone which is used for making razors blades for hunting animals.

Pointing out to the pre-studies which have been conducted in this regard in the area, Dashtizadeh said: “Before starting archeological excavations, some geological and morphological studies were conducted in the whole area and existence of Paleolithic evidence was already approved in the area.”

According to Dashtizadeh, the discovered prehistoric relics have already been transferred to Paleolithic Research Department of Iran’s National Museum and have been examined by Fereydoon Biglari, director of this department.

City of Jam is the ninth city of Iranian southwestern province of Bushehr. It is limited to Firuzabad and Dashti from north, to Kangan city from south, to Mehr city of Fars province from east, and Deir and Kangan cities from west. Historical and geographical evidence show the existence of Jam city from very ancient times.

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Lower Paleolithic sites discovered in southeastern Iran by coldrum on Thursday, 01 October 2009
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Lower Paleolithic sites discovered in southeastern Iran

Seven sites dating back to the Lower Paleolithic (c2,000,000–c200,000 BC) era have recently been discovered in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.

The sites were identified during archaeological studies, which have been carried out over the past few weeks on Mount Khajeh by an Iranian team of experts led by Kurosh Mohammadkhani, the Persian service of CHN reported on Monday.

Located at a distance of 20 kilometers southwest of the city of Zabol, Mount Khajeh is comprised of a number of trapezoidal-shaped lava flows.

It also contains ruins of mud-brick structures dating back to the Parthian era. However, a number of shards from the Achaemenid period have previously been unearthed at the site.

The mount, a lone peak located in the middle of Hamun Lake (Hamun-i-Helmand), is turned into an island during the rainy seasons of the year.

Only five other sites in Iran from the Lower Paleolithic era have previously been identified so far, Mohammadkhani said.

One of the sites is located in the Kagia region in Kermanshah Province and another in the bed of the Kashf-Rud River near the village of Baqbaqu in the Khorasan region.

The Ladiz region, located 65 kilometers south of the city of Zahedan in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, also has one of Iran’s Lower Paleolithic sites.

The region in northwestern Iran located among the cities of Tabriz, Maragheh and Mianeh has another site and the fifth is located in the Ganjpar region in the lower strata of the Jalalieh Tepe in the Kaluraz valley of Gilan Province.

The ancient architectural ruins on Mount Khajeh, which has been dubbed ‘The Mud-Brick Persepolis’, were discovered by the Hungarian-British archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein in 1916.

The German archaeologist and Iranologist Ernst Herzfeld conducted excavations on the site from 1925 to 1929.

In addition, several Iranian archaeologists including Soroor Ghanimati of the University of California at Berkeley, Mahmud Musavi, and Mansur Seyyed-Sajjadi have conducted excavations at the site over the past decade.

Photo: The ruins of the Parthian era structures are seen on the Mount Khajeh. Iranian archaeologists have recently discovered seven Lower Paleolithic sites on the mount.

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