Abstract
This chapter reviews prehistoric data for the central Iranian Zagros and discusses the time depth for a few environmental features and cultural patterns. In this area, archeological excavations and surveys permit a partial reconstruction of features of ancient land use and shed light on the content and spatial patterning of early villages. The chapter focuses on late prehistoric occupation in central western Iran. Although additional data are sorely needed, palynological, sedimentological, paleozoological, and archeological data combine to support a fairly unified if thus far coarse-grained picture of the early post-Pleistocene epoch. These data suggest that by about 3500 B.C., many features of modern climate and vegetation were established in the Kermanshah−Hamadan area and that in broad outline the environmental constraints affecting contemporary villagers are similar to those operating for most of the period extending from the present to the early fourth millennium.
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