ABSTRACT

This paper studies the glyptic origins of the seals impressed on the clay sealings Early Bronze Age trash deposits at Chogha Maran in the western Central Zagros and correlates the origins with the functions of these clay objects in order to analyse the role of the seals and sealings in the Chogha Maran administration. The examination suggests that the clay sealings were used at Chogha Maran mostly by local groups of people for managing the local economy. However, some of the sealings might have appeared at Chogha Maran as a result of long distance cultural and possibly commercial interactions. The results emphasise the significance of the administrative evidence of Chogha Maran as it represents the only known case of employing administrative mechanisms in the Central Zagros during the first half of the third millennium BCE. The evidence attests to increasing complexity in the socioeconomical organisation of western Central Zagros societies as reflected in applying administrative technology in an indigenous communally organised storage system. The nature of the Chogha Maran administration and its connections with Susa and Trans-Tigridian centres reflects a reorganisation of the socioeconomic system of the western Central Zagros societies in response to the cultural and environmental events that occurred around 3000 BCE.

摘要

本文研究了扎格罗斯中部西部 Chogha Maran 早期青铜时代垃圾沉积物上印在粘土密封件上的印章的符号起源，并将其起源与这些粘土物体的功能联系起来，以便分析印章和密封件在历史中的作用。乔加·马兰政府。检查表明，乔加马兰的粘土密封主要由当地人群用于管理当地经济。然而，由于远距离文化和可能的商业互动，一些海豹可能出现在乔加马兰。结果强调了乔加马兰行政证据的重要性，因为它代表了公元前三千年上半叶在扎格罗斯中部使用行政机制的唯一已知案例。证据证明，中西部扎格罗斯社会的社会经济组织日益复杂，这反映在土著社区组织的存储系统中应用行政技术。Chogha Maran 行政机构的性质及其与苏萨和跨提格里德中心的联系反映了中西部扎格罗斯社会的社会经济体系的重组，以应对公元前 3000 年左右发生的文化和环境事件。