Preliminary Report on Archaeological Survey of Talvar Dam Basin (Bijar-Kurdistan)

The Talvar dam archaeological project was conducted on March 2008 in order to evaluate the archaeological potentials of the regions affected by the industrial constructions. Intensive walking survey of the region has revealed seventeen new sites, which encompass a relatively wide temporal range from Chalcolithic to the Islamic periods. However, there exists a noticeable gap between the Iron Age and historical periods. The distribution of the sites and their positions compare to the Talvar River indicate that this river has played an important role for the populations who used to live in this geographical region during the prehistoric and historic times.