Jajrom () is a city in the Central District of

Jajrom County Jajrom County () is in North Khorasan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Jajrom. History After the 2006 National Census, Golestan Rural District, the city of Daraq, parts of Miyan Dasht Rural District, and parts of the city of ...

, North Khorasan province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, Jajrom had been joined with Garmeh since 1998 as the city of Garmeh-ye Jajrom, whose population was 24,368 in 6,332 households. The following census in 2011 counted 18,547 people in 4,985 households for the city of Jahrom, which had been separated from Garmeh-ye Jajrom as an independent unit once more. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 19,580 people in 5,616 households. Because of several historical and archeological sites, Jajrom is one of the most attractive cities in North Khorasan province. The city is placed on the border of Central Desert of Iran and has a unique vegetation. Jajrom has also known for its wildlife refuge which Iranian cheetah lives there. The city has several bauxite mines and a plant is producing Alumina from bauxite.

Historical sites

The region of north-eastern Iran has not been explored archaeologically until recently. But now a lot of work is being done. Archaeological fieldwork in North Khorassan has already shown the richness of prehistoric cultures in the region.

Tepe Pahlavan

Tepe Pahlavan (Tappeh Pahlavan) is a prehistoric site near Jajrom. It is a large

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

-Chalcolithic craft production site, located between the

Alborz Mountains The Alborz ( ) range, also spelled as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs northeast and merge ...

in the north, and the vast desert of Dasht-e Khavir in the south. In 2014, an Iranian-German team carried out the first systematic excavations at Tappe Pahlavan.KHARANAGHI, M. Hossein Azizi, THOMALSKY, Judith, KHANIPOOR, Morteza, JAFARI, M. Javad (2016)
Archaeological Research at Tappeh Pahlavan, North Khorasan Province (Northeastern Iran); Report on the 2014 Season.
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Volume: 53 Pages: 59-79
At academia.edu
/ref> The upper settlement horizon has been dated to the early sixth millennium BC. These are the earliest dates so far for the ceramic Neolithic period in Northeast Iran. The connections with the contemporary sites in Northeast Iran are evident, but also with the sites in

Kopet Dag The Köpet Dag, Kopet Dagh, or Koppeh Dagh (; ), also known as the Turkmen-Khorasan Mountain Range, is a mountain range on the border between Turkmenistan and Iran that extends about along the border southeast of the Caspian Sea, stretching nort ...

, 200 km to the east. The ceramics are similar to the Cheshmeh Ali type. The Cheshmeh Ali cultural complex generally defines a Transitional Chalcolithic on the Iranian Central Plateau dating between 5500 and 4800 BC. Yet the radiocarbon dates at Pahlavan precede this period by 500 years. So Cheshmeh Ali type ceramics here may be a unique early local development. The

Jeitun Jeitun (Djeitun) is an archaeological site of the Neolithic period in southern Turkmenistan, about 30 kilometers north of Ashgabat in the Kopet-Dag mountain range. The settlement was occupied from about 7200 to 4500 BC possibly with short interr ...

ceramics, very common in Northeast Iran and southern Turkmenistan, are not found in Pahlavan. There is also very little evidence of agricultural activities here. Rather, this settlement seems to have been mostly occupied with bead production, processing the local semi-precious stone deposits.

Jorbat

Petroglyphic site of Jorbat (This area is locally known as Sang Neveshteh or the "inscribed stone") to the north of the plain of Jajrom is one of the largest rock-art complexes of Iran. Ranging from late Bronze Age to the ethnographic period, the rock art imagery of Jorbat has close parallels both in petroglyphic sites of the Central plateau of Iran and the Central Asian steppes.A.A. VAHDATI (2012)
A Preliminary Report on a newly discovered Petroglyphic Complex near Jorbat, the Plain of Jajarm, North-eastern Iran.
Paléorient, vol. 37.2, p. 177-187 - academia.edu

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