Zagros and Space Identity

The concept of space identity received an increasingly significant place in the analysis of social behavior and preparedness and is considered to have a decoding role in understanding many important geographic phenomena. Researchers have frequently attempted to find out which factor or factors responsible for the generation of human civilization in varied forms and patterns. Can rivers be responsible? If so, why can we find urban and village residence only in certain places along the rivers which are sometimes around hundreds of kilometers long? Moreover, in places where there have been good soil and water, nomadic civilization rather than an inhabited one has been formed. Recent studies have found that space identity provides the answers to all these questions and the studies done by researchers in Iran suggest that the main fundamental of civilization in Iran is subject to specific regulations and rules and follows the space identity of its domain. In this article, which is the result of a research project at Islamic Azad University Maybod Branch in Iran, based on discourse analysis, an attempt has been made to understand space identity of inhabitation in Zagros area and the results show that although Zagros is considered a nomadic civilization area, other space identity factors have also played a limited or small role in changing the main texture of space organizations among which the following can be mentioned: a) quaternary lake shore in the domain of nomadic social civilization system has been a strong attraction in changing the nomadic civilization to an inhabitedcivilization, and b) hazardous landslide phenomenon in Zagros has had an effect in creating more place preparedness, which has subsequently led to the formation of small villages and settlements in the domain of nomadic civilization