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Document Details : Title: The Kangavar Survey Subtitle: The Iron Age Author(s): YOUNG, T. Cuyler Jr. Journal: Iranica Antiqua Volume: 37 Date: 2002 Pages: 419-436 DOI: 10.2143/IA.37.0.133 Abstract : After a millennium of gradual change in a context of cultural stability (the Godin III Period), cultural instability came to the Kangavar Valley. The Iron I/II Period, as understood from the survey evidence, represented a major reconfiguration of the settlement patterns in the valley and in the way in which the environment was exploited. This datum confirms the evidence from elsewhere in Iran that a major cultural change took place between the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. It is, however, also clear, from both the evidence of survey and of excavation, that another major shift in cultural patterns occurred at the end of the Early Iron Age and the beginning of Iron III Period, or the Late Iron Age. Which of these disruptions represents the arrival of the Iranians in the land that now carries their name? Assuming that their arrival on the plateau will be documented and found in the archaeological evidence, the data from the Kangavar Valley provides us with two options, just like the data from elsewhere on the plateau. |
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