About 9,000 B.C., most human settlements lay in the area along the Mediterranean coast and in the ZagrosMountains of Iran and their foothills.
大约在公元前9000年,大部分人类定居点都位于地中海沿岸地区以及伊朗扎格罗斯山脉及其丘陵地带。
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Other big fields, at Majnoon and Nahr Umar, are nearby. Clustered to the west and south of the ZagrosMountains, which loom across the border in Iran, this is a geological el Dorado.