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Site No. 11 of Talvar dam was excavated in 2010 aimed to be salvaged and archaeologically studied. Preliminary studies indicated that there had been a nomadic area with chalcolithic pottery. Accordingly, there was a need to study the material culture (mainly pottery). In this article, first chalcolithic potteries of the area are generally presented and described; then, typology and classification of the findings are administered and comparing with the pottery data of the nearby areas, their relative dates are provided. Based on relative chronology, Tal 11 site dates to the first half of the fourth millennium B.C. (4000 to 3700 B.C) and is coincided with Dalma pottery tradition (middle chalcolithic). Tal 11, having its own local culture and pottery similarities within Talvar river basin, i.e. Tal 12 and Kalnan tepe, shows also similarities with western region of center of Iranian Plateau and Zanjan region, at least in relation with pottery tradition. Due to the types of potteries, lack of architectural traces, and deficiency of cultural deposits, it can be concluded that settlement of this area was temporary and nomadic.

Although prehistoric periods (especially Chalcolithic) of western side of central Zagros is fairly known, Songhor and Koliyaei plains had not been sufficiently investigated neither by the foreign nor the Iranian archaeologists; however, in the course of recent investigations in 2002 and 2009, 33 chalcolithic sites were identified. Nine sites out of these thirty three ones had Dalma sherds. All these 9 sites are located close to the water resources and mostly in the hillsides, where it is easy to reach pasturelands. Considering low extent of settlements and their locations, it could be found out that there have been small sedentary or semi-sedentary villages which could satisfy their life needs by breeding herds. This paper assumes importance since it could provide valuable information on this culture and its probable interaction with its neighboring regions for us, such as Kangavar, Mahidasht, and south of Kurdistan.

In the fifth millennium B.C, the Dalma ceramic cultural tradition spread throughout much of the north-west and western of Iran. However, insufficient pieces evidence of the same expansion and distribution of this tradition over eastern parts of North west and central Iranian plateau have been obtained during the surveys at Abharrud basin area. Abharrud basin is located among the three cultural-geographic regions of the central plateau, north-west and west of Iran. During the surveys in this area, 12 Dalma associated sites were discovered and examined. The discovered sites might have possibly been small villages situated near water sources and mostly on the intermountain plain of Abhar or among the highlands; according to the location selection, these villages belong to nomads wandering in between the north-west and western parts of Iran's basins. The matter of this research is that it can yield a large amount of information about the eastern cultures and traditions of the north-west, north-east of western Iran and the western cultures of central plateau and the 
characteristics and cultural types of these regions (their similarities and differences) in a small but prominent region.