نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 گروه باستان‌شناسی، دانشگاه رازی، کرمانشاه، ایران (نویسندۀ مسئول)
2 بخش شرق‌شناسی و مدیترانه دانشگاه لیون 2، فرانسه
3 گروه باستان‌شناسی، دانشگاه رازی، کرمانشاه، ایران.
4 گروه باستان‌شناسی دانشگاه تهران؛ اداره کل میراث فرهنگی، گردشگری و صنایع دستی استان ایلام، ایلام، ایران.
چکیده
چغاگلان پیش‌تر به‌عنوان مکان بسیار مهمی در مطالعات مربوط به ظهور کشاورزی اولیه و استقرار دائمی در جنوب‌غرب آسیا شناخته شده است. کارهای مختصر قبلی دانشگاه توبینگن در سال‌های 9-1388 نشان‌داد که چغاگلان در حدود 9700-7600پیش‌ازمیلاد مسکونی بوده و شاهد یک دورۀ طولانی از تجارب اولیه در تولید غذا بوده است؛ با این‌حال، باوجود این جایگاه مهم باستان‌شناسی، این محوطه تا آغاز مرحلۀ جدیدی از کاوش‌ها در سال 1402ه.ش. بدون پژوهش میدانی رها شده بود. در این سال یک پروژۀ جدید با هدف بررسی ماهیت متنوع تاب‌آوری بلندمدت توسط ساکنان کوهپایه‌های زاگرس در طول گذار به نوسنگی شروع شد. در این‌راستا، نخستین فصل کاوش‌ها در ماه‌های مهر و آبان 1402 انجام شد. بر این‌اساس، ترانشه‌ای به ابعاد 8×4 متر در بالای محوطه کاوش شد؛ در نتیجه، 5 فاز استقراری براساس بقایای معماری در یک توالی به ضخامت 285 سانتی‌متر شناسایی گردید. با این‌حال، کاوش به خاک بکر نرسید و مطالعۀ لایه‌های زیرین باقی‌مانده به فصول بعدی موکول شد. این پژوهش، نتایج اولیۀ کاوش مذکور را ارائه کرده و سپس اهمیت آن‌ها را در بستر جغرافیایی زاگرس برای درک بهتر فرآیند نوسنگی‌شدن این منطقه موردتوجه قرار داده است.
کلیدواژه‌ها
عنوان مقاله [English]
An Interim Report of the New Excavations at the Neolithic Site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, Western Iran
نویسندگان [English]
- Hojjat Darabi 1
- Saeid Bahramiyan 2
- Hamzeh Ghobadizadeh 3
- Jamal Sheikhi 4
- Mehdi Eskandari 3
1 Department of Archaeology, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. (Corresponding Author)
2 Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Jean Pouilloux, L’université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France.
3 Department of Archaeology, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
4 Generate Office of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of Ilam Province, Ilam, Iran.
چکیده [English]
Chogha Golan has previously found a spectacular place in studies of the emergence of early agriculture and sedentary life in western Asia. Earlier brief work by the University of Tübingen in 2009-2010 suggested that Chogha Golan was inhabited between ca. 9700-7600 BC and witnessed a long initial experimentation with food production. However, despite this significant archaeological position, the site was left without further fieldwork until a new stage of excavations was initiated in 2023, aimed at investigating the diverse nature of the long-term resilience of the inhabitants of the Zagros foothills over the course of the transition to the Neolithic. In this regard, the first season of the excavations was carried out in October-November 2023. Accordingly, an 4×8 m area was excavated at the top of the site. As a result, 5 occupational phases were distinguished based on architectural remains within 285 cm of residential sequence yet excavated. However, the virgin soil was not reached, leaving investigation of remaining underlying levels to the next season. This article presents the preliminary results of the 2023 excavations and then contextualizes their significance for a better understanding of the Neolithization process across the Zagros region.
کلیدواژه‌ها [English]
- Zagros Foothills
- Neolithization
- Chogha Golan
- Early Farming
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