Copper Age artifacts unearthed in western Iran

Archaeologists in western Iran have discovered artifacts estimated to date back to the Stone Age and Copper Age.

The simple and engraved relics have been discovered inside trenches that were dug as a process to determine boundaries for an archaeological site in Asavleh Village, which is located in Sanandaj county of Iran’s Kordestan Province.

The excavations went on with some 20 trenches carved around the archaeological site which also yielded relics of stone walls and simple and glazed potteries.

The discoveries are believed to date back to the early Islamic era.

According to available data, the first well-documented evidence of human habitation in the Iranian plateau was discovered in various excavated cave and rock-shelter sites, primarily in western Iran's Zagros Mountains.

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