Cultural Interactions in Mazandaran during Bronze Age

The main goal of this paper is study of the internal and external cultural interactions of the Bronze Age sites in the Mazandaran plain and its mountainous areas on the basis of pottery analysis. Plain and painted red and burnished gray and dark wares are two prototypes potteries of the Mazandaran Bronze Age period. We have studied potteries which were gathered from some excavations and surface survey projects carried out in the region through comparing them with other potteries from the neighboring regions. This study has been to identify the parallel production of red and gray potteries and internal and gradual transformation of ceramic technology in the Bronze Age of Mazandaran to assess assertions concerning its eastern or western interactions.