This project relates social impacts of science and technology in prehistoric Anatolia and Iran by using metal technology as a case study. We aim to establish a linkage between Anatolian and Iranian prehistoric metallurgy; and, examine emergence of arsenical coppers in both regions with a multi-analytical approach. This project aims to improve our academic knowledge and will provide a foundation for Turkish and Iranian mineralogists and archaeologists to collaborate on early metallurgy, which has long been suggested to be a crucial factor for early societies.

This project will be the first archaeometallurgical collaboration between Turkish and Iranian archaeologists and scientists on the subject of archaeology and emergence of early alloys. Eastern Anatolian plateau is geologically connected to the Zagros and Alborz mountain ranges, which prompts the relation of mineralogical zones between these two countries. This will be forced to establish a solid-linkage between Anatolian and Iranian archaeometallurgy and aims to bring Turkish and Iranian scholars together around the same archaeological, mineralogical and economic geological points of view. This international collaboration will serve as a baseline for both countries to present a comprehensive study of a region, which must have been well-connected in prehistory.