An Archaeological Study on the Neolithization of the Zagros Region

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26770273
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: Independent Administrative Institution National Institutes for Cultural Heritage Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (2016); Waseda University (2015); The University of Tokyo (2014)
• Principal Investigator: Abe Masashi 独立行政法人国立文化財機構東京文化財研究所, 文化遺産国際協力センター, 研究員 (50583308)
• Research Collaborator: KHARANAGHI Hossein Aziz ; KHANIPOUR Morteza
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 西アジア / 農耕・牧畜の起源 / 新石器化 / ザグロス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Fertile Crescent in the Middle East is known as a center of origin for the domestication of animals and plants. In the 1990s, most archaeologists believed that the first domestication of plants and animals occurred in the Levant. However, recent genetic studies strongly suggest the importance of the Zagros in the Neolithization of the Middle East.
In order to reveal the details of the process of demoestication of animals and plants and spread of the agricultre in the Zagros, this author studied archaeologcial materials excavated from several imporatant Neolithic sites in Iranian Zagros.

Free Research Field

考古学