The Nomadic Alternative and the Iranian Occupation of the Plateau

The Iranian occupation of the Plateau is a controversial and long debated issue dealt with by differing scholars during the last century. The quantity and the political nature of those aggregations of peoples, widespread over the plateau some of which called Iranians, has characterized the studies and research activities of the historical, philological and archaeological different scientific perspectives, which did not yet have elaborated fully satisfying answers on the matter: the recognized ethnic identity; the exact chronological collocation and the complex relationship with the other Indo-Europeans people.