Investigating the 7000 Years Old Water Canal at Tepe Pardis

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10.22034/ais.2024.385445.1035

Abstract

2000s excavations at Tepe Pardis, Varâmin, yielded a number of new and in some cases unique findings which draw researchers' attention who were members or colleagues of the excavation team. During the fieldwork or a bit after finishing, excavators of Tepe Pardis began to publish their interpretations of these findings in numerous accounts and insist on their primitive assumptions until now. Potter's wheel, pottery kilns, and irrigation canal were their interpretations of the findings which their functions were apparently determined at the moment of detection. However, one should expect to disqualify the excavator's hypothesis due to the improvable nature of humanities. A triangular earthly feature close to the trench IV at Tepe Pardis exposed by machinery activities was interpreted as an ancient irrigation canal operating at the end of the 6th millennium BC. Based on this assumption the excavator inferred some forms of irrigated agriculture in use at the Early Chalcolithic Period Central Iranian Plateau. Whilst paleo-botany data are considered the most reliable documents proving types of agriculture, the excavators have not presented this significant set of data to reinforce their suggestion. With a short review on the various forms of water-transferring methods from its beginning up to the modern times in Iran and the periphery areas, the present paper tries to delve more into the so-called irrigation canal at Tepe Pardis and find its real functioning.

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Ancient Iranian studies

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Available Online from 04 January 2024

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  • Receive Date: 13 February 2023
  • Revise Date: 27 April 2023
  • Accept Date: 01 May 2023

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