08.11.2011, 00:17
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Photos by Hamid Sadeghi, Mehr News Agency
Jiroft Culture - "Jiroft culture" has been postulated as an early Bronze Age (late 3rd millennium BC) archaeological culture, located in what is now Iran's Sistan and Kerman Provinces. The hypothesis is based on a collection of artifacts that were confiscated in Iran and accepted by many to have derived from the Jiroft area in south central Iran, reported by online Iranian news services, beginning in 2001.
Many artifacts associated with Jiroft were recovered from looters described as "destitute villagers" who had scavenged the area south of Jiroft before 2001, when a team led by Yousef Madjidzadeh began excavations. The team uncovered more than two square kilometers of remains from a city dating back to at least the late 3rd millennium BC.
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Jiroft is a city Kerman Province, Iran. Jiroft is located in a vast plain, Halil River, on the southern outskirts of the Jebal Barez mountain chain, surrounded by two rivers. The name "Jiroft" has recently become known in archaeological circles, after Iran's Cultural Organization announced the discovery of remains from an ancient city buried near the current city of Jiroft, leading to theories proposing the remains belong to a forgotton culture known as the Jiroft civilization.
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Zitat:Jiroft wurde in jüngerer Zeit unter Archäologen bekannter, als die iranische Kulturorganisation verlauten ließ, die Überreste einer Jahrtausende alten Stadt bzw. eines Königreiches in der Nähe von Jiroft entdeckt zu haben. Auf einem Ausgrabungsgelände, das nur einen Kilometer vom heutigen Zentrum entfernt liegt, wird aktuell eine Vorgängerstadt von Jiroft erforscht. Die iranischen Experten sprechen bereits von der Jiroft-Kultur, die ein Bindeglied zwischen der Indus-Kultur und dem alten Sumer im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. darstellt. Manche sehen darin aufgrund der Fundsituation von Keramiken das mythische Aratta, die in den Keilschrifttexten genannte Herkunftsstadt der Sumerer.
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