The Luristan Communities were living in
and around the Zagros Mountains between
Iran and Iraq in the late 2nd and early 1st
millennia bc, distinctive for their bronze-
working industry. Their origins are obscure,
but they may have originated in the
Caucasus away to the east; they seem to
have been ancestral to the Medes and
Persians. Their bronze work is
characterized by ornamentation that
includes the free use of animal and
demonic human forms applied to such
products as weapons, horse fittings, and
jewellery.
- (SJ.103)
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