Footprints of ancient village in south-central Iran

According to the Public Relations Office of the Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), head of the joint archaeological team of Iran and Germany in
Talle Kamin Nowruz Rajabi, said on Saturday that the result of the first season of studies in that area shows that from the beginning of the sixth millennium BC up to the beginning of the first millennium BC and the Achaemenid period cultural activities and residential settlements existed in that key area.

only in the period after the Achaemenid era up to the early Islamic centuries no evidence has been seen of the cultural establishment in that environment, he added.

Due to the vulnerability of the hill on the side of the farmers and in order to prevent the gradual destruction and leveling of the hill, the program for determining the limits of the hill started in the form of 12 speculation operations around the hill which were completed satisfactorily, Rajabi said.

He referred to the pathology, documentation and preparation of 3D map of the hill as another research plan of the joint Iran-German archeology team and expressed the hope that with the help of the outcome effective documents would be obtained about the hill under the present condition.

Talle Kamin is an important area on the edge of the Kor River with a one-hectare span which was first identified by William Sumner and in the 1980s several speculations were conducted on it by the Vandenberg.

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