ABSTRACT
For years people respected the tomb and held ceremonies around it. When pastoral nomads came to the area on their way to their summer or winter areas, they camped around it to make offerings. Before it was listed as an archaeological site of unique value and fenced off by UNESCO, it was the people's sanctuary. The landlords claim to have come here from the Bakhtiari region, which covers a vast area in the Zagros Mountains from north-west Isfahan to the plains of Khuzestan. There are also pastoral nomads who have settled in the area and belong mostly to the Bsseri Tribe. The fact that the son of a landowner, while tilling his land around the tomb area, found the emblematic earrings of the Achaemenid period in a pot and took them to be appraised, shows the local people's sensitivity to history and archaeology.
