ABSTRACT
Prehistoric Persia has been studied by J. de Morgan, 1 but no light has yet been thrown on the invasion of the plateau of Media by the Iranians from the North. Settlements are found on the southern slope of the Damavand massif in Mazandaran and in the Lar valley near Muhammadabad, and prehistoric remains in the silt of the torrential Ab-i-Parduma, recalling the crudest types of the European Quaternary period. Neolithic workshops have been discovered in the Pusht-i-Kuh (the Kassite country) and at Tepe Gulam in Luristan. Bronze Age tombs and a dolmen have been found at Kraveh-Kadeh, in the mountains above Lenkoran on the Caspian. At an undetermined but certainly very ancient epoch Elam or Susiana was inhabited by Negritoes. 2
