Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Abdulwahab Dahdouh ¹
• Abbas Moghaddam ²
• Nasir Eskandari ³

¹ Archaeology Department

² Assistant professor of the National Institute of Archeology

³ Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran

Abstract

The Middle Susiana period in the southwest of Iran has several characteristics, the most important of which are the development of agriculture villages and animal husbandry with the rise of settlements numbers and the increasing of population density. While the agriculture was generally expanded, the use of stone implements to plowing lands, harvesting and processing crops was inevitable. Many examples of these impalement had already been identified in the Neolithic sites in Deh Luran and Khuzestan. The Zohreh plain in the southeast of Khuzestan province has many agricultural capacities. Hundreds of stone implements have been discovered in the site of Tol-Chega Sofla, which is located in the riverine landscape of the Zohreh Plain made an opportunity for us to study them in terms of their typology and function in the subsistence economy of the fifth millennium BCE communities .By classifying and comparing the stone tools of Chega Sofla with other examples discovered in Deh Luran and Susiana plains, it has become clear that these implements are similarly used in communities for agriculture, spinning and hunting.

of the Zohreh Plain made an opportunity for us to study them in terms of their typology and function in the subsistence economy of the fifth millennium BCE communities .By classifying and comparing the stone tools of Chega Sofla with other examples discovered in Deh Luran and Susiana plains, it has become clear that these implements are similarly used in communities for agriculture, spinning and hunting.

Keywords

• Stone implements
• Chega Sofla
• Southwest Iran
• Middle Susiana
• Agriculture

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