Evidence of the connection to the Achaemenid Empire can be linked through writings on the Cyrus Cylinder which trace the lineage of.
It was one of the earliest urban states to exist, and one of the earliest capitals of from the late 4th millennium BC.
Some craft activity, particularly ceramic and some stone vessel manufacture, was concentrated in specialized villages, at least earlier in the period Alden 1982.
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