Morteza Khanipour, the head of the archeological team, said the Hermangan site located to the west of Jashnian village in Bavanat county, Fars Province, was discovered in April 2015, Mehr News Agency reported.
He noted that over 50 percent of the site had been completely demolished by farmers and only a few parts of it have remained.
"Excavations have so far led to the discovery of two phases of settlement," Khanipour said. "In the older phase, the lack of architecture and the existence of several hearths and scattered ash could be indicative of the nomadic lifestyle of its inhabitants."
He added, "On the deposits, we discovered stratigraphic architecture including rooms and several other spaces painted in white clay, and the walls of two rooms that were painted red using ocher."
Due to unauthorized excavations, most of the rooms have been destroyed, thus making it impossible to give an accurate and definite explanation of their functions, he added.
The archeologist noted the discovery of a thermal structure in the trenches that was most probably an open furnace used for clay firing.
"By comparing the potteries obtained from this site to the ones discovered in Mushaki Mound, Jeri Teppe (mound), Bashi, and Kushk-e Hezar, one can say that the site dates back to the Neolithic era of Bashi archeological site and the TMB workshop of Mushaki."
He put the antiquity of Hermangan archeological site at between 8100-7800 BC.
Other objects unearthed during the excavations include stone tools such as microliths which indicate that the inhabitants' involvement in harvesting and agriculture, as well as protoliths which show that tools were also produced in the settlement.
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