Ganj Dareh

Tepe Ganj Dareh (; "Bukit Lembah Khazanah",Smith, Philip E.L. Architectural Innovation and Experimentation at Ganj Dareh, Iran, World Archaeology, Vol. 21, No. 3 (February, 1990), pp. 323-335 merupakan sebuah petempatan Neolitik di bahagian Kurdistan sebelah Iran. Letaknya di timur Kermanshah, di pertengahan Banjaran Zagros.  



Mula-mula ditemui pada tahun 1965, ia digali oleh pengkaji purba Kanada bernama Philip Smith pada 1960-an dan 1970-an.Smith, Philip E.L., Ganj Dareh Tepe, Paleorient, Vol. 2, Issue 2-1, pp.207-09 (1974)

Tinggalan petempatan paling lama berusia sekitar 10,000 tahun,Zeder, Melinda A. & Hesse, Brian.  The Initial Domestication of Goats (Capra hircus) in the Zagros Mountains 10,000 Years Ago, Science (journal) 287, 2254 (2000) serta membuahkan bukti pembelajinakan kambing terlama di dunia.What's Bred in the Bone, Discover, Julai 2000 ("After investigating bone collections from ancient sites across the Middle East, she found a dearth of adult male goat bones—and an abundance of female and young male remains—from a 10,000-year-old settlement called Ganj Dareh, in Iran's Zagros Mountains. This provides the earliest evidence of domesticated livestock, Zeder says.")Harris, David R. (ed.)  The origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism in Eurasia, ms. 208, 249-52 (UCL Press 1996) (Reprint ISBN 978-1-85728-538-3)Natural History Highlight: Old Goats In Transition , National Museum of Natural History (Julai 2000)  

Tinggalan tersebut dikelaskan kepada lima tahap pendudukan, iaitu dari A di atas hingga E.Yelon, A., et al. Thermal Analysis of Early Neolithic Pottery From Tepe Ganj Dareh, Iran, in Materials issues in art and archaeology III (1992)

Rujukan

 Bibliografi 
 Agelarakis A., The Palaeopathological Evidence, Indicators of Stress of the Shanidar Proto-Neolithic and the Ganj-Dareh Tepe Early Neolithic Human Skeletal Collections. Columbia University, 1989, Doctoral Dissertation, UMI, Bell & Howell Information Company, Michigan 48106.
 Robert J. Wenke: "Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's first three million years" (1990)

Pautan luar
 Natural History Highlight: Old Goats In Transition , National Museum of Natural History (July 2000)

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