Guran Tepe

A site in western Iran with at least 21 occupation levels dated c 6500-5500 BC. In the earliest aceramic levels, there were remains of wooden huts, probably from a semi-permanent winter camp. In later levels with pottery, there are mud-brick houses and evidence of farming, goat domestication, and barley cultivation.

Situated south of Kermanshah in western Iran, Tepe Guran has 21 occupation levels, dated c6500-5500 be. In the earliest, aceramic levels there were remains of wooden huts; it is probable that at this stage the site was a semi-permanent winter camp for goat-herdsmen who also hunted gazelle. In later levels, when pottery came into use, permanent mud-brick houses are found and there is evidence of farming: as well as domesticated goats, hulled two-row barley was probably cultivated.