Preliminary Report of the Prehistoric Sites Survey in Fasa Plain, 2009, Fars Province

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Majid Mansouri ¹ (Ph.D. Student in Prehistoric Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.)
Ahmad Ali Asadi ² (Ph.D. Candidate in Historical Archaeology, Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran.Iran.)

Received: 2023-07-09 Accepted : 2023-07-09 Published : 2012-08-22

Keywords: Fars province, Prehistory, relative chronology, Archaeological Survey, Fasa Plain,

Abstract :

Fasa is one the most important areas in prehistoric of Fars province. Archaeological works in Fars, before and after the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1978, mostly had been epitomized to Kur River Basin. Although, the importance of prehistoric of Fasa revealed by Miroschedji’s survey in 1971-72 but he did not study this survey’s data very well and just published a brief article in 1973. Fasa surveyed again by an Iranian mission was conducted by A. A. Asadi in 2009 that 15 prehistoric sites were identified. In this paper, these 15 sites have been studied, and finally a relative chronology was suggested for each.