The Signs of an Organized System during Bronze Age, in the Eastern Central Zagros Region (Kangavar Plain)

Central Zagros Region is considered as one of the most important areas in the archaeology of prehistory of Iran and Mesopotamia. Our knowledge from the archeology of the area shows that this region plays an important role in the evolution of villages and urban development in the world. The present research aims to study the settlement pattern of the 27 Middle Bronze Age sites in the Kangavar valley through considering their ecological and environmental characteristics as well as their spatial characteristics (rank-size and Shannon entropy analyses). The concentration of sites with centralized system in the south eastern parts of the area and the spatial balances among the sites in the other parts suggests the formation of a cultural-economic organization to imply that the sites such as Godin and Karkhaneh with the centralized systems, in the middle parts of the area have extended the range of its control over the landscape. Inter-regional communications via trading networks as well as other cultural traits which have been seen from the Godin III assemblages could be used as the indications for such organizational complex systems in Iran and Mesopotamia.