Early Bronze Age Flaring Bowls Of Western And Southwestern Iran

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Khodakaram Mazaheri ¹ (Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Islamic Azad university, Ilam Branch, Ilam, Iran.)
Hassan Tala’i ² (Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.)
Kamalaldin Niknami ³ (Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2023-07-14 Accepted : 2023-07-14 Published : 2009-08-23

Keywords: central Zagros, Proto-Elamite, Godin III, Flaring Bowls,

Abstract :

The first mid of third millennium B.C. is one of the main archaeological periods in central Zagros that nevertheless lack and dispersion of archaeological documents(specially in central Lorestan), change and depth culture evolutions happen in this period that seems this change and evolutions finally be the base formation of Godin III culture (Giyan IV-II). In this research, we studied one kind of rare pottery that belongs to first mid of third millennium B.C. and obtained from valleys and southern districts of central Zagros. this kind of pottery that almost seems be find in burial textures, is belongs to second mid of Proto-Elamite period (Susa IIIB-C) and its distribution in southern districts of central Zagros, indicate penetration of Proto-Elamite culture in second quarter of third millennium B.C in this area. In the other hand typology studies of this kind of pottery, indicate the remarkable role of the Proto-Elamite culture pottery tradition in formation of Godin III culture pottery tradition.