Darian Dam Archaeological Salvage Program

Darian Dam was constructed on the Sirwan River between 2009 and 2015. The Dam is located in the Hawrāmān region of Kurdistan and Kermanshah. The Darian Dam Archeological Salvage Program (DDASP) was planned by Iranian Center for Archaeological Research before flooding the reservoir.[1]

A Middle Paleolithic rockshelter site near Hajij village

This archaeological program, under the general direction of Fereidoun Biglari, has conducted several seasons of archaeological surveys and excavations within the area of the reservoir that led to discovery of a number of important Paleolithic and more later sites.[2] The Main excavated sites were Dārāi Rockshelter (Middle Paleolithic), Kenācheh Cave (Upper Paleolithic), Ruwār tomb (Iron Age), Sar Cham (Chalcolithic and Iron Age), and Barda Mār (19th century). Except Ruwar sites, all other excavated sites were flooded in 2015-2016.

Results of these salvage excavations were presented at the First National Congress on Archaeology of Hawraman: Archaeological Salvage Excavations at the Darian Dam Reservoir in May 2018 in Kurdistan University.

Excavation at the Upper Paleolithic site of Kenacheh

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Digs hint 40,000 yrs. of man life in Hawraman".
  2. ↑ https://www.archaeology.org/news/4038-151230-iran-paleolithic-kurdistan

Biglari, F., S. Shidrang et al. 2017 Survey and salvage excavations at the Darian Dam Reservoir, Hawraman, Kurdistan and Kermanshah, Proceedings of the 15th annual archaeological Symposium of Iran, pp. 49–54, Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR), Research Institute of Cultural Heritage & Tourism (RICHT), Tehran

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