New Insight About the Neolithization Process in the Caspian Sea Shoreline
Publish place: The first international virtual conference on archeology of Iran and neighboring regions
Publish Year: 1399
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
زبان: English
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Abstract:
The northern Caspian Sea is one of the important region to seek the transition form Epi-Paleolithic to the Neolithic of Iran. In fact, the cave of the northern of Iran is unique because it has both material cultures of Epi-Paleolithic and Neolithic together and therefore its allows us to see how and when the hunter gatherer left the dependence of environmentand began agriculture. However, while the pioneer archaeologists have focused on the cave sites of the Caspian Sea, the new research has started to examine such transition of human societies from hunter gathering to agriculture in the open area, outside of the cave. Therefore, in 2017 the authors have opened some vertical trenches in front of the caveof Komishani in order to document how and when such transition has occurred. The results of the first season of excavation of Komishani open site was fantastic and allows us to revise old and current approaches of Neolithic transition in the southern Caspian basin. In this conference, we represent evidence for human use of a broad range of plant andanimal resources on the southern coastal plain of the Caspian Sea during the early Holocene. Analyses of botanical and faunal remains, stone tools and radiocarbon assays from the multi-component site at Komishani Tepe suggest there was pre-agricultural management of both plants and animals in this region as early as 9200 cal BC. Two radiocarbon assaysfrom aceramic Neolithic contexts fall between 8600 and 8200 cal BC, making it the oldest Neolithic site in the Caspian basin and one of the earliest Neolithic sites in Iran
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Hasan Fazeli Nashli
Department of archaeology, University of Tehran, Iran