PreliminaryResearch on the Economic Aspects of the Kohgiluye and Buyerahmad, Based on Archaeological Evidence and Historical Texts

Historical texts and Archaeological data have an important role in clarifying the economic condition of a region in the ancient times. Today's economic position of Kohgiluye and Buyer Ahmad in Islamic periods is less known due to small number of historical and archaeological researches. In this current study, three factors related to Kohgiluye and Buyer Ahmad's economy in the Islamic era have been considered. This three factors include ecological and livelihood system of nomads, cities as commercial centers, and intra and extera-roads as infrastructure of trade development and commercial prosperity of this region. In this study, besides investigating the three mentioned cases, it has been tried to combine those with results of archaeological investigations and researches. Because of having diversity of acclimation, being mountainous, numerous rivers, diversity of vegetation, and rich ecosystem in general, Kohgiluye and Buyer Ahmad has prepared favorite condition for nomad life during history. The livelihood system of nomad life of Kohgiluye and Buyer Ahmad's people who lived in latest Islamic centuries mainly had been based on animal husbandry that has supplied its products to neighboring cities (Behbahan, Ardakan, Shahreza, and daylam and Ganaveh ports) and supplied some of their needs from those towns, in addition to selfsufficient in supplying their essential needs. According to remained historical texts, this region witnessed commence and prosperity of cities such as Ziz, Gonbadmolghan, and Dehdasht and also two extra-regional roads consist of Fars to Khuzestan and Khuzestan to Esfahan which archaeological investigations also endorse their existence. Rich ecosystem also had duplicated the importance of extra-regional roads and cities of this region so that in addition to exporting this region's products to neighbor cities, this product also has been sent to the far distant countries.