New evidence of Kura-Araxes culture in the Qom plain based on Qoli Darvish settlement area and Khaveh cemetery excavations

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1 University of Mohaghegh Ardabili uma

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

3 professor of Archaeology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran

4 (I.C.A.R)

10.22084/nb.2025.29489.2687

Abstract

The results of archaeological studies in the Qom Plain, especially during the last two decades, have presented a relative picture of the cultural and chronological sequence of the region, especially during the Bronze Age. In this regard, for the first time, the excavations of the settlement site of Qolidarvish and Khaveh Cemetery provided new and convincing evidence of relatively extensive cultural interactions and connections between the Early Modern Age communities located in Qom Dasht and the Early Modern Age cultures of other regions, especially in the southwest and northwest of Iran. In addition to Jezgholi Darwish and Khaveh, 31 sites were studied, of which 22 sites were identified with evidence of kura araxes culture (especially the pottery tradition). Qolidarvish period II represents the early Elamite culture, and period IIIA shows the presence of some features of kura araxes culture. But based on the documents obtained from the excavation, it seems that the Khave cemetery (contemporaneous with the IIIA period of qoli Darvish) probably represents the presence and cultural development of kura araxes communities. In other words, the collection of documents obtained from the exploration and investigations of the Qom plain strengthens the possibility that in the beginning of the third millennium B.C. Kochero kura araxes groups and communities entered this region and settled in the high and mountainous areas of the south of the Qom plain. The continuity of some characteristics Native of the Qom plain, along with the culture indicators mentioned in Qoli Darvish period IIIA and the lack of evidence of the architecture of kura araxes culture in this period in Qoli Darvish, is the basis of this assumption. On the other hand, Yusuf Khan Khaveh cemetery in the south of Qom Plain provided far more and more complete evidence of burial methods, tomb architecture, pottery tradition, a collection of metal objects and other burial objects.

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Archaeological Research of Iran

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Available Online from 08 November 2025

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