Issue 9
Issue 9
2024-01-28
Complex local settlement in Zagros Mountains before the Assyrians expanded into this region
About 5 km south of the district town of Qaladze, in the Peshdar Plain on the eastern bank of the Little Zab, lie the two archaeological sites of Qalat-i Dinka and Gird-i Bazar.
2024-01-28
Zarzi was used by groups of hunter-gatherers between 18,000 and 14,000 years ago.
The cave here at Zarzi was used by groups of hunter-gatherers between 18,000 and 14,000 years ago. Zarzi Cave was excavated by Dorothy Garrod in 1928 and by Iraqi archaeologist Ghanim Wahida in 1971.