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Article: Investigations on the evolution of subsistence economy in the Qazvin Plain (Iran) from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.
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- Antiquity
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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This paper aims to present some of the results of research on the palaeodiet of prehistoric people in the Qazvin Plain within the last five millennia. Archaeological faunal remains used for this study originate from three sites in the Bu'in-Zahra microregion of the Qazvin Plain: Tappeh Zagheh (hereafter Zagheh), Qabrestan and finally Sagzabad dating respectively to the 6th/5th, 4th and 2nd/1st millennia BC (Mashkour in preparation). These sites were systematically excavated between 1970 and 1978 under the direction of Professor E. O. Negahban.
From a palaeoeconomic point of view, the northern Iranian Plateau is little known and these archaeozoological ...