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Over sixty artifacts identified in northwestern Iran

The Public Relations Office of the Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT) quoted Head of the project as saying in the course of salvaging program of Paygham Chai Dam in Kalibar, Kurgans were encountered which were similar to those previously discovered in Khoda Afarin region.

According to the archaeologist, the Kurgan (or hill grave) are the heaps relating to the graves of the people living in the late second millennium or the early first millennium BC who have been buried at different social levels together with objects belonging to the deceased person.

Referring to the specific architecture of some of the graves which deserve further study, she said: “Presence of the Kurgans in the 1393 (2014-2015) project further encouraged us to present a research plan in search of their dispersion and span and thereby survey broader areas.”

Qahremani described this part of southwest Kalibar as a complex of narrow valleys and alluvial fans leading to the plains in the middle of mountain which has served as the human habitat from various civilization periods.

Referring to the discovery of most of the Kurgans beside water resources, including the spring or the river, she said it seems that proper environmental conditions, especially access to water resources, presence of arable land in the high-landed plains overlooking the valley, and existence of pastures and orchards along the river has been the most important reason for the formation of settlements and establishment of habitants some four thousand years ago and even older.

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