the irone age settlements of taleghan, northern central plateau of iran

like the adjacent areas including savojbolagh and tehran plain etc, taleghan is one of the regions susceptible to form iron age settlements at northern central part of iranian plateau. during an archaeological survey in this region in 2001, 19 zones were attributed to iron age region so that due to study on the findings resulting from this survey again, only ten of them included characteristic and remarkable and chronological potteries. comparison among potteries in this region may indicate that the given potteries are related to iron age i and ii. it seems the high altitude of taleghan region as well as its cold and mountaineous climate along with the lack of farming lands caused this region to draw attention of nomadic communities during iron age like the present time.