Babylonia the excavators found kernels of true wheat and six-rowed barley,[1] a discovery equaling that of wheat and barley chaff in the lowest stratum of Anau, just beyond the northeastern border of Iran in Russian Turkestan.[2] Wild emmer, long considered the ancestor of cultivated wheat, has been revealed near the city of Karind on the Baghdad-Kirmanshah road in the Zagros Mountains.[3] Sheep and long-horned cattle are portrayed on sherds of painted pottery from every section of Iran. This ware, the most notable contribution of Copper Age man, was a direct descendant of the Iranian early Chalcolithic painted pottery. It appears at Susa, where it is known as Susa I,[4] and, in successively later developments, at Nihavend[5] and Kirmanshah[6] in the Zagros; at Bushire in the south;[7] near the cities of Teheran,[8]
- ↑ H. Field in the American Anthropologist, XXXIV (1932), 303–9.
- ↑ Pumpelly, Explorations in Turkestan, Expedition of 1904 (Washington, D.C., 1908), pp. 38 f., 67, and 72; cf. Schellenberg, ibid., pp. 469–73.
- ↑ A. Schulz in Berichte der deutschen botanischen Gesellschaft, XXXI (1913), 226–30, and Die Geschichte der kultivierten Getreide (Halle, 1913), pp. 13 f.
- ↑ De Morgan, Mém., I, 184–88; De Morgan, Pottier, and De Mecquenem, Mém., Vol. XIII.
- ↑ Herzfeld in the Illustrated London News, June 1, 1929, pp. 942–45; AMI, I (1929–30), 65–71; Iranische Denkmäler, Lfg. 3/4 (Berlin, 1933), pp. 19–26, Pls. 1–27. See also Contenau and Ghirshman in Syria, XIV (1933), 1–11.
- ↑ De Mecquenem, Mém., XX, 126 f.
- ↑ Pézard, Mém., XV, 13–19.
- ↑ De Mecquenem, Mém., XX, 115–25.
