World's oldest Civilization- Jiroft (Iran)- Part 1

Jiroft civilization (Persian تمدن جيرفت) is a postulated early Bronze Age (late 3rd millennium BC) archaeological culture, located in what is now Iran's Sistan and Kermān Provinces. The hypothesis is based on a collection of artifacts that were confiscated in Iran and accepted by many to have derived from the Jiroft area in south central Iran, reported by online Iranian news services, beginning in 2001. By the new discoveries in Jiroft, it is proved that Jiroft citizens were the first people who created writing, not Sumerians.

The proposed type site is Konar Sandal, near Jiroft in the Halil River area. Other significant sites associated with the culture include; Shahr-i Sokhta (Burnt City), Tepe Bampur, Espiedej, Shahdad, Iblis, and Tepe Yahya.

The proposition of grouping these sites as an "independent Bronze Age civilization with its own architecture and language", intermediate between Elam to the west and the Indus Valley Civilization to the east, is due to Yousef Majidzadeh, head of the archaeological excavation team in Jiroft. Yousef Majidzadeh speculates they may be the remains of the lost Aratta Kingdom. Yousef Majidzadeh's conclusions have met with skepticism from some reviewers. Other conjectures (eg. Daniel T. Potts, Piotr Steinkeller) have connected the Konar Sandal with the obscure city-state of Marhashi, that apparently lay to the east of Elam proper.

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[AneierHSNO4]

oh wait im at 1:17 now and look at the persian gulf and surrounding water. all the places that civilization started is connected to those water ways, now 10,000 years or so ago the sea level was around 400 feet shallower, so civilization started in the Persian gulf/ gulf of moan area and when it flooded people moved to Iran, India, and Iraq. The Sumerians even said they came out of the sea and the south. I wanna know why there isnt more study of that area.. who agrees with me?

[AneierHSNO4]

i see the stuff they were digging up and i think jomon, at least 7000 plus years old and these fucking guys these dope heads probably... ran has the highest opiate abuse in the world. are just selling it and destroying it by digging it up recklessly, i mean common Iran, and I'm not one of those people that hates Iran. i think they have wonderful young people over there just dumb leaders like where else... oh yea here the united states of shit smear ica

[shirzadegangallery]

Dorud!

 Bar SHOMA........Hamid.

[gatheringleaves]

@VitaminsAndPiss

Wow your funny, obsessing over skin color. And no the vast majority of Iranians do not have white skin, white skinned Iranians are a minority, mostly located in Central and North Iran, most Iranians have light brown skin

[notaflicker]

no one truley knows who or what civillization is the oldest. there are more out there

[garde200022000]

@ukgreaterlondon civilisation appeared independently of religion.

[garde200022000]

@trespire Pashtun ethnic? r u kidding me? Iranians are PERSIAN, and it is totally evident.

[shemmarr24]

@VitaminsAndPiss that today but they are mixed

[zadeh79]

Just one look at the jiroft and proto-elamite writing is enough to tell the later came from the former.

[metaflux2]

Was that just a miniature "stone Hedge" figurine on 2:30?

That is sad 5:18.

And she is beautiful 8:14.