Kombus Bonary: An Islamic Settlement in the Southern Zagros

Kohgilouyeh and Boyrahmad mountainous region has been played an important role in Iranian archaeology especially where the formation of nomadic communities is discussed. Through history different nomads have settled the region due to its moderate climate and fertile pasturelands. Archaeological studies having recently been conducted in this region have shown variant settlement sites which have temporally been used by these nomadic communities. One of these sites is Kombus Bonari which has been located in Choram county of Kohgilouyeh and Boyrahmad. In 2009, this site was precisely investigated by the authors to specify its real extent as well as its chronological orders. In this research our findings based on an archaeological and ethno-archaeological approaches is presented. It is important to say that Kombus Bonari provided us a diagnostic type of Islamic pottery known as Islamic Painted Potteries which have not been reported from the region before.