Ali Kosh
Map showing location of Ali Kosh and other locations of early herding activity.
Ali Kosh is an archaeological site of the Neolithic period located in Khūzestān Province in southern Iran, in the Zagros Mountains.
The site is about 135 m in diameter.[1]
Neolithic sites in Iran
Research has found three phases of occupation of the site over an almost 2,000 period, starting from about 9,500 years ago (7500 BCE).[1] It was occupied by pre-pottery peoples.[2]
References
- 1 2 Smith, Andrew Brown. African herders: emergence of pastoral traditions, pp. 67-68 (2005) (ISBN 978-0-7591-0748-9)
- ↑ Langer, William L., ed. (1972). An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 17. ISBN 0-395-13592-3.
Bibliography
- F. Hole and K. V. Flannery, The Prehistory of Southwestern Iran: A Preliminary Report, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 33, 1968
- F. Hole, K. V. Flannery, and J. A. Neely, Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Deh Luran Plain. Memòria 1, Ann Arbor, 1969.
- F. Hole, Studies in the Archeological History of the Deh Luran Plain. Memòria 9, Ann Arbor, 1977
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