TEHRAN-- On the event of National Womens Day, the National Museum of Iran has actually placed on show a 7,000-year-old clay figurine of a mother hugging her child.Found in the late Neolithic site of Zagheh at the northwestern periphery of main Iran.

According to organizers, the 7,000 years old figurine is the earliest representation of a mother and kid discovered in Iran.

This figure is the only discovered example of Iranian ancient art that reveals a mom with a child in her arms, the director of the prominent museum informed visitors throughout the opening ceremony hung on Wednesday.Coinciding with Womens Day, the National Museum of Iran chose to expose among the most important and unique works of its treasure in the kind of a single exhibit, Jebrael Nokandeh stated.Archaeologists have uncovered this figurine from an engraved building called Niayeshgah ( Place of Worship , which has to do with seven thousand years of ages, in Tepe Zagheh of the Qazvin plain.

It is made of baked clay and shows a mother with a kid in her arms.

The mothers head is extended and nearly cone-shaped, and her eyes are represented by several grooves.

The kid was made independently from shot clay and added to the body, Nokandeh described.

This figure is the only discovered example of Iranian prehistoric art that shows a mom with a child in her arms.

The carver has actually revealed the kid in the moms arms so creatively that in spite of its little size, it stimulates a mothers psychological sensation towards her kid to the audience, and perhaps to emphasize this issue, the artist creatively crossed the border of naturalism by showing this mom with four hands, he said.This very little ancient historical work informs the story of more than 7 thousand years of Irans rich culture and civilization, Nokandeh said.The exhibition will be running through January 20, he said.Situated in the Sagzabad district of Boueen Zahra county in Qazvin province, c.

60 km south of Qazvin city and 140 km west of Tehran, Tepe Zagheh is among the key websites of the transitional duration from Neolithic to Chalcolithic in the Qazvin plain.The settlement at Zagheh existed for a substantial quantity of time, roughly 9 hundred years, from 5200 to 4400 or 4300 BC, according to outright and relative chronology.Nearly 3 thousand years had passed by this point, during which the village had actually been developed and agriculture had actually advanced because tokens had become recognized and recognized and had actually begun to be utilized in the system of numeration and accounting.Evidence from many excavations and interdisciplinary studies suggests that Zagheh had actually a ranked society where social stratification was institutionalised which the society was in the Chalcolithic to Neolithic transitional period.The Neolithic, also called the New Stone Age, is the final stage of cultural development or technological advancement amongst prehistoric human beings.

It was characterized by stone tools formed by polishing or grinding, reliance on domesticated plants or animals, settlement in permanent towns, and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving.

The Neolithic followed the Paleolithic Period, or the age of chipped-stone tools, and preceded the Bronze Age, or the early duration of metal tools.AFM