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New studies shed light on lifestyle at Gohar-Tappeh prehistoric site (Iran)

Located five kilometers west of Behshahr in Iran’s northern province of Mazandaran, Gohar-Tappeh is the largest and most important prehistoric site so far, relative to those previously discovered in the region.

A joint team of German and Iranian archaeologists along with a number of Polish experts in interdisciplinary fields have recently been assigned to study the 13,000 year record of habitation at the site.

The new anthropological studies are led by Arkadiusz Soltysiak, an expert from the Department of Historical Anthropology at the Institute of Archaeology at Warsaw University, the Persian service of CHN reported on Saturday.

Studies on skeletons unearthed from graves at the site indicated that men living in the region were large in stature and powerful, Iranian director of the team Ali Mahforuzi said.
Read entire article at Tehran Times