Editing History of Iran (section)

===Neolithic to Chalcolithic===
Early agricultural communities such as [[Chogha Golan]] in 10,000 BC<ref>{{cite web|title=Early humans in Iran were growing wheat 12,000 years ago|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/early-humans-iran-were-growing-wheat-12-000-years-ago-f6C10536898|date=5 July 2013|work=NBC.news|access-date=10 September 2014|archive-date=2 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102183951/https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/early-humans-iran-were-growing-wheat-12-000-years-ago-f6C10536898|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Riehl|first1=Simone|title=Emergence of Agriculture in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran (Supplement)|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259041065|website=www.researchgate.net|access-date=1 March 2015|archive-date=3 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503134900/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259041065_Emergence_of_Agriculture_in_the_Foothills_of_the_Zagros_Mountains_of_Iran_Supplement|url-status=live}}</ref> along with settlements such as [[Chogha Bonut]] (the earliest village in Elam) in 8000 BC,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/nn/spr97_alizadeh.html |title=Excavations at Chogha Bonut: The earliest village in Susiana |publisher=University of Chicago
|access-date=21 June 2013 |archive-date=25 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725195537/http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/nn/spr97_alizadeh.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last =Hole|first =Frank|title =Neolithic Age in Iran|encyclopedia =Encyclopedia Iranica|publisher =Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation|date =20 July 2004|url =http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/neolithic-age-in-iran|access-date =9 August 2012|archive-date =23 October 2012|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20121023055952/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/neolithic-age-in-iran|url-status =live}}</ref> began to flourish in and around the Zagros Mountains region in western Iran.<ref name=MMA>{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/02/wai/ht02wai.htm |title=Iran, 8000–2000 BC |access-date=2008-08-09 |work=The Timeline of Art History |publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |date=October 2000 |archive-date=2001-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010305194154/http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/02/wai/ht02wai.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Around about the same time, the earliest-known clay vessels and modelled human and animal terracotta figurines were produced at Ganj Dareh, also in western Iran.<ref name=MMA/> There are also 10,000-year-old human and animal figurines from Tepe Sarab in Kermanshah Province among many other ancient artefacts.<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.pbase.com/k_amj/tehran_museum |url-status= live
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726032154/http://www.pbase.com/k_amj/tehran_museum |archive-date=2013-07-26
|others= Ali Majdfar, photography
| access-date= 27 March 2008
| title= Ancient Iran Museum
}}</ref>

The south-western part of Iran was part of the [[Fertile Crescent]] where most of humanity's first major crops were grown, in villages such as [[Susa]] (where a settlement was first founded possibly as early as 4395 cal BC)<ref name="Elam">{{cite book
|title=The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State
|first= D. T. | last=Potts
| publisher=Cambridge University Press
| year= 1999
| isbn =0-521-56358-5}}</ref>{{rp|46–47}} and settlements such as [[Chogha Mish]], dating back to 6800 BC;<ref name="xinhuaciv">[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/10/content_6508609.htm Xinhua, "New evidence: modern civilization began in Iran", 10 Aug 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123142419/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/10/content_6508609.htm |date=23 November 2016 }}, retrieved 1 October 2007</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chogha Mish (Iran)|author=K. Kris Hirst|url=http://archaeology.about.com/od/cterms/g/choghamish.htm|access-date=2010-06-11|archive-date=2013-11-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106002737/http://archaeology.about.com/od/cterms/g/choghamish.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> there are 7,000-year-old jars of wine [[Excavation (archaeology)|excavated]] in the Zagros Mountains<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/NearEast/wine.shtml |title=Penn Museum – University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216011240/http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/NearEast/wine.shtml |archive-date=2008-12-16 }}</ref> (now on display at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]) and ruins of 7000-year-old settlements such as [[Tepe Sialk]] are further testament to that. The two main Neolithic Iranian settlements were [[Ganj Dareh]] and the hypothetical [[Zayandeh River Culture]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Philip E. L. |date=1990 |title=Architectural Innovation and Experimentation at Ganj Dareh, Iran |journal=World Archaeology |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=323–335 |doi=10.1080/00438243.1990.9980111 |jstor=124833 |issn=0043-8243}}</ref>