Journal of Archaeological Studies

Abstract The ancient hills are the human’s close and far activities sense. These places may be the transit camp survivors or ruins towns or villages. This paper studies the archaeology of the ancient hill of Meymanabad using micromorphology methods. This hill situated in Robat Kareem_in South-East village called Meymantabad. The result has showed that before the establishment of the site occupations there have been a warm and wetter conditions througout the region.  According to the cubic microscopic structure that is the region natural examples index, a period lack of establishment from point E to point D has occurred.  The point C is the latest cultural point and after this there are no cultural effects. In fact, what makes this civilization wiped out was the river flooding of Shadchay River resulted in the destruction of the site and caused the peoples to abandon their settlement areas.  

Abstract Water resources throughout human history have always been an important factor in attracting human settlement. The main purpose of this paper was to investigate what is the role of Shadchay River in the location of two prehistoric settlements that are called Tepe Meymon Abad. In this research by field studies and also to investigate the characteristics of the sediments, samples were taken from the trenches of archaeological sites and remains of ancient waterway. The results obtained are compared with each other and also the necessary maps were plotted by using GIS and Freehand software. The results of the geoarchaeological studies show that these two sites are located on the alluvial plains and on the end of the Karaj alluvial fans. The fine-grained alluvial fan deposits of the Karaj, has created favorable conditions for the human settlement in this area. According to the samples taken and all evidence, probably in the past, a tributary of the Karaj river flowed in a course which is different from its nowadays water way and consequently by its redirection the settlement moved and transferred to a location closer to the river.