Significance of Cultural Continuity at the Site of Douranabad in the Study of Bronze Age and Iron Age in Southern Qazvin Plain

With many archeological sites, the southern area of the Qazvin Plain is among the significant areas of the Central Iranian Plateau where numerous studies and excavations have been carried out. However, the authors intend to re-examine the evidence regarding the settlement patterns during the Bronze and Iron Ages in this area, due to some unanswered questions and uncertainties. One of the revisited prehistoric sites in this area is Douranabad the findings from which were presumed to outline the settlement pattern of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the southern area of the Qazvin Plain. These findings indicate that the site has been occupied during the Chalcolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages, and therefore has an important status to study the cultural sequence and settlement patterns in the area. In addition, other evidence from some sites in the area, such as Sagzabad, Ghabrestan and Yass Tepe, confirms the presence of human communities in different phases of the Bronze Age to Iron Age in the southern areas of the Qazvin Plain and that the same sites were generally reoccupied in the Iron Age.