Talk:Iranian History/Ancient pre-historic Iran

Mesopotamia
Is such a detailed discussion of Mesopotamia needed, in a textbook on Iran? Νεοπτόλεμος ( talk &#124; email &#124; contribs ) 16:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Copyright infringement?
Certain sections seem to be the same as an article in Iran Review. (or Iran Daily) i.e.
 * First untitled paragraph.
 * Old Stone Age or Paleolithic Age (most of this section)
 * New Stone Age or Neolithic Age (first 2 paragraphs)
 * The Rise of Mesopotamia (whole section)
 * Uruk (whole section)
 * Early dynastic Sumer (whole section)
 * Akkad (whole section)
 * Mittani and the Hittites (first halves of paragraphs 1 & 3, all of para 2)
 * Assyria and Neo-Babylonia (whole section)
 * The Zayandeh-Rud Civilization (first 2 paragraphs)
 * Jiroft Civilization (first and last paragraphs)

(although from the date of the Iran Review article, Nov 2009, the copying may have been from Wikibooks.)

Recently added sections seem copied from various sites, i.e.


 * Atlantis Online dated March 15 2006
 * Jiroft (first para)


 * David Cortright dated January 2008.
 * Jiroft (2nd para)


 * Saudi Aramco World dated September/October 2004.
 * Jiroft (last para)


 * Science magazine dated 7th November 2003]
 * BRONZE AGE FIND (full text not available, but whole section is suspect)

Recent Runes (talk) 11:50, 12 June 2010 (UTC)