Chogha Mish

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Choga mixing (also Chogha Mish or Tappeh -ye Chogha Mish, Persian تپه چغامیش, DMG Tappe -ye Coga MIS ) is the most extensive pre-and proto-historic archaeological place on the territory of ancient Elam, in the present province of Khuzestan (then: Khuzistan ) in the southwest of Iran. The approximately 17 -acre resort is located between Dezful and Shushtar and less than 5 km east of Choga Bonut ( COGA Bonut ), another historic site.

The colonization of Choga mixing goes back to the 8th millennium BC and was thus originated in the Chalcolithic period. Almost continuous Evidence can be found since the 6th millennium BC ( Neolithic ) to the 4th millennium BC, when the first clay tablets in Mesopotamian Uruk arose, the cuneiform inscriptions had. In that regard, it is assumed that Choga mixing was a cultural and social center in the region Chusistans. The present meaning in turn is that the development of writing here had its origin.

Archeology

Excavations at Choga mixing go back to the initiative of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, one of the world's most important research centers for Near Eastern Archaeology and Egyptology. Was digging 1961 until 1978. The management of the excavation project had Pinhas Delougaz and Helene J. Kantor held. Many of the archaeological finds and the corresponding observations began in 1979 onset of the Islamic Revolution to the victim.