the Asian continent has seen the appearance of some of the most ancient human civilizations that developed after the great Neolithic revolution, which marks the beginning of a stable and articulated human organization that is susceptible to rapid development. The most ancient civil organizations are found in correspondence with the valleys of the great rivers which, with their periodic floods or canalization systems, guaranteed a renewal of the agricultural land and therefore the stable settlement of human groups. Thus the Mesopotamian civilizations (linked to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers). that of India and that of the Gallo River (Huang-ho) some historians that Mesopotamian cultures were among all the most ancient and precisely from them the superior and specialized cultural characters have spread to the rest of continent and then in the glovo. The most recent anthropological and archaeological studies, however, seem more important to the Iranian area and this long before the historical people settled here, whom I know tend to define “Indo-Europeans”. The archaeological discoveries made in the last hundred years seem to identify a single great Asian cultural reality, well recognizable starting from the Neolithic, which from the Anatolian and South Caucasian area reaches to extend throughout the Iranian plateau up to the Indus river. It seems to be found precisely in this wide territorial strip of the plateau. More than in the lower Messopotamia, the place where the first proto-urban realities can be developed. It is difficult to assess whether this cultural development took place through autonomous evolution or rather due to the ethnic migration of a population group, just as it is still premature to identify the original place of this reality in one region or another, even if it is evident that precisely the Iranian area had to have a primary role in the whole process. research has allowed us to discover in the territory of Iran a large number of prehistoric settlements (the cave in the Bistun gorge. The caves of Khotu and Gari – Kamarband) but up to now there are no works of particular relevance found. The history of Iranian art is therefore made to begin a relatively later period, from when, that is, in the sixth and fifth mills BC, in the valleys formed by small rivers and streams, stable groups of farmers and cattle breeders began to settle. they manufactured clay pots of excellent quality, adorned with lively paintings, so that this culture is often called the “culture of painted pottery” to the fifth and fourth millennium xC many centers of development of these cultures in the territory of Iran can be traced back. of the ethnic and cultural movements from the Iranian plateau to the rest of the continent some help is offered to us precisely by the diffusion of some particular decorative motifs present on the most ancient ceramic forms, spread over the millennia in almost all of Asia, from the Near East to to Siberia and India. By following the path of these decorative motifs we can consider the cultures of the southern Iranian regions of Central Asia or even of the Siberian ones deriving from the western Iranian plateau. The main theme of the decorative motifs in the southern and Mesopotamian regions is the figure of the goat with all the attributes and elements already encountered in the plateau, even the deformations of this animal at first very similar in much of Asia will later acquire a local taste that manifests itself in a freer and more animated style, making use of the so-called “scrub” technique later the settlements of Bakun and especially Susa will suffer the Mesopotamian influence, which will slightly affect the whole region of Iran when Susa arrives at the urban complex, constituting the first Iranian state body with the name of Elam. north still articulate artistic forms adorned with decorations and motifs from the ancient cultural background. a series of ceramic and bronze works from different Iranian centers give proof of this. These sites alongside the production of Luristan are: Hasanlu, amlash, rezaiyè, all around 1000 BC. Sakkez in Kurdistan, 1500 BC, kangavar 12th century BC. Korvin near Tehran 1500 BC all this amply demonstrates how important was the Iranian influence that reaches India and Mesopotamia directly. In fact, it is thought that following a geophysical change that was slowly transforming into deserts, the lakes existing in the Iranian region and vice versa in the Mesopotamian territory were defined as the system of the Tigre and the Euphrates, groups distant from a homogeneous culture moved I was from the lands of the plateau and one part would have descended towards Mesopotamiai and another towards India. This probably happened in the fourth mill. BC but already before there had been contacts between Iran and the Mesopotamian regions, observing in fact and the ceramics of Samarra (Iraq) it is impossible not to think of the centers of the plateau and precisely of tepe-sialk, this comparison and above all suggested by the decoration of a cup showing a geometrically stylized combination of four goats to which a rotating movement is imprinted which is the known date of the Samara craftsman, while the theme of the goats formed of triangles joined at the vertices is Sialk’s. loses the Iranian contribution both because the centers of the plateau fall under the Elamitic influence and because, being the Sumerian civilization in formation, the city life has evolved and following other needs it has dissolved from the Iranian forms that are the expression of a different cultural world still articulated on a village organization.