خلاصة:
Lorestan’s Balageriveh, is a lowland passage area, located in between two rivers,
Dez and Kashkan in South Central Zagros; the area itself is divided into three parts,
northern, southern and central. In previous studies in Lorestan, a form of complete
shift was depicted from sedentary lifestyle to a mobile one, in transition between
the Late Chalcolithic and the Middle Bronze Age. Central Balageriveh is important
to be studied on this matter due to its central position among Susiana (Elam),
Central Zagros, Bakhtiyari region, Posht Kouh and Mesopotamia, as well as
paleoclimatology and archaeological studies conducted over there. Due to the
above reasons, the present study has taken into account paleoclimatology and
archaeological data, the transition process from Chalcolithic Cultures to the Bronze
Age, a change in settlement patterns and the role of socio-economic and
environmental changes in this pattern alteration. The findings indicated that longtime
climatic change which occurred in the middle of 4th millennium B.C. in the
region cannot be regarded as the cause of the complete cultural gap and the change
of settlement pattern at the time. Instead, it seems that with the collapse of the Uruk
System and its commercial organization, the areas like Balageriveh which were
intermediary in this commercial network, lost their charm. When people like Kura-
Araxes, on whom some would put the blame of the Uruk collapse as they were
mobile pastoralists, settled in some areas which the previous power had lived, the
commercial paths withered and Balageriveh’s intermediary role diminished and
instead due to socio-political reasons, the lowland characteristics of the area
became highlighted and the change in settlement pattern occurred.
ملخص الجهاز:
Analysis of Transitional Process from Chalcolithic to Bronze Age in Balageriveh, Lorestan, Iran Mehdi Rezaei1, Rahmat Abbasnejad Seresti2 Received: 2018/2/25 Accepted: 2018/8/15 Abstract Lorestan’s Balageriveh, is a lowland passage area, located in between two rivers, Dez and Kashkan in South Central Zagros; the area itself is divided into three parts, northern, southern and central.
In previous studies in Lorestan, a form of complete shift was depicted from sedentary lifestyle to a mobile one, in transition between the Late Chalcolithic and the Middle Bronze Age. Central Balageriveh is important to be studied on this matter due to its central position among Susiana (Elam), Central Zagros, Bakhtiyari region, Posht Kouh and Mesopotamia, as well as paleoclimatology and archaeological studies conducted over there.
When people like Kura-Araxes, on whom some would put the blame of the Uruk collapse as they were mobile pastoralists, settled in some areas which the previous power had lived, the commercial paths withered and Balageriveh’s intermediary role diminished and instead due to socio-political reasons, the lowland characteristics of the area became highlighted and the change in settlement pattern occurred .
After the Uruk period, we witnessed a complete break up in lifestyle in Balageriveh which is coextensive with the results of a series of studies; the one conducted by a Danish group in Lurestan showed a complete breakdown or in other words a new way of pastoralism along with animal husbandry in the area which was being spread during the transition from the Chalcolithic to Bronze age (Motarjem & Niknami, 2011).