In 1963 excavations at Tepe Guran in Luristan revealed a series of
occupations, representing a small Neolithic village with an economy
based on dry-farming, herding, and hunting, and strongly dependant on
the nearby rivers and hills. A unique sequence of a-ceramic and early
ceramic levels covering a period of more than a thousand years (c.
6700-5500 BC) were uncovered.
Peder Mortensen's book is the final
report on the excavations, supplemented by sections on the prehistoric
environment and on hunting and early animal domestication at Tepe Guran
by Kent V. Flannery and Pernille Bangsgaard. The results are presented
within a framework of reflections relating to the author's and to other
scholars' recent research on the development of Neolithic settlement and
subsistence patterns in the Central Zagros region.