Early settelment of the Holocene in the Kohgiluye region

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Department of Prehistory, Research Institute of Archaeology, Tehran, Iran

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During a period of several thousand years, from the end of the Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene, human societies were able to change their way of life, which was based on hunting and food gathering, to agriculture and a succession. This remarkable transformation, which is also referred to as the process of neolithic/neolithic, is one of the important topics of prehistoric archeology. In relation to the geographical extent of the occurrence of this important development, in general, there is a general agreement about Southwest Asia among researchers. Recent researches in the Zagros highlands and its foothills have led to the discovery of very important evidence related to the Neolithic process and have once again turned the attention of researchers to the eastern parts of the fertility crescent. New archaeological researches in Kohgiloye area, as a part of the southern highlands of Zagros, and the identification of a significant number of early Holocene settlements from the high potential of this area to study the Neolithic process in this part of the Iranian plateau. It tells a story. In the investigations carried out in the Kohgiluyeh area, 16 sites of early settlements of the Holocene period have been identified. From the morphological point of view, these settlements are classified into four groups of hills (5 hills), open areas (8 areas), rock shelters (2 shelters), and one cave. they become In general, the settlement and livelihood patterns of these areas are influenced by several factors of plains, rivers, mountains, and gorges, which shows that the societies of this period have benefited from all the environmental potentials of this area.

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