New Evidence of the Early Writing in the Central Plateau of Iran Based on Excavations in the Meymant Abad Area

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Archeology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Pishva-Varamin Branch

2 PhD Archeology. University of ،Tehran

3 University of Tehran

10.22084/nb.2023.26165.2476

Abstract

The Proto writing is a period of human life in which he wrote on clay tablets for the first time. This process is one of the greatest inventions in human history, which did not happen all at once and had a gradual trend from the Neolithic period to the second half of the fourth millennium BC. The main feature of this period, along with seals and polychrome pottery, are quadrangular inscriptions with counting signs in the first stage, and then formed with pictographic conventional signs in the second stage, which is probably the initial shape of the line. These inscriptions in Iran have been obtained from Susa and Chogha Mish in Khuzestan, Godin in Kermanshah, Sialk in Kashan, Sofalin and Meymanat Abad in Tehran province. These inscriptions have been identified not only in Iran but also in other regions of the Middle East such as Mesopotamia and Syria and have similarities in appearance, structure and content. In this research, the authors try to investigate how these inscriptions originated and the early stages of this process (Counting objects and mud balls that were the first human attempt to record the transportation of goods) and how they are distributed in the Iranian plateau and other regions of the Middle East. Therefore, in the present study, using descriptive-analytical research method and data collection by field and research methods, tries to introduce the structure of early writing in the Middle East, with an emphasis on administrative management technique and the importance of Meymanat Abad area in the Proto writing. The results indicate that the societies of Central Plateau, in the mid-fourth millennium BC, had achieved the socioeconomic complexities by the classified — or chiefdom — structure, that a group of people in the society supervised political, social and economic affairs and perhaps a patriarchal structure which is a suitable platform for future studies on the Proto writing in different regions of the Near East.

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pazhoheshha-ye Bastan shenasi Iran

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Available Online from 10 September 2023

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