Jiroft Culture

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jiroft Civilisation is a postulated Early Bronze Age (3rd millennium BC) archaeological culture located in what is now Iran's Sistan and Kerm n Provinces. The hypothesis is based on a collection of artifacts that were confiscated in Iran and accepted by many to have derived from the Jiroft area in south central Iran, reported by online Iranian news services beginning in 2001. The proposed type site is Konar Sandal near Jiroft in the Halil River area. Other significant sites associated with the culture include Shahr-i Sokhta (Burnt City), Tepe Bampur, Espiedej, Shahdad, Iblis, and Tepe Yahya. The proposition of grouping these sites as an "independent Bronze Age civilization with its own architecture and language", intermediate between Elam to the west and the Indus Valley Civilization to the east, is due to Yousef Majidzadeh, head of the archaeological excavation team in Jiroft. Majidzadeh speculates they may be the remains of the lost Aratta Kingdom. Majidzadeh's conclusions have met with skepticism from some reviewers.