Andy Burns states "The Zarzian of the Zagros region of Iran is contemporary with the Natufian but different from it.
Faunal remains from the Zarzian indicate that the temporary form of structures indicate a hunter-gatherer subsistence strategy, focused on onager, red deer and caprines.
"[1] The Zarzian culture seems to have participated in the early stages of what Kent Flannery has called the broad spectrum revolution.
The Zarzian culture is found associated with remains of the domesticated dog and with the introduction of the bow and arrow.
It seems to have extended north into the Gobustan (Kobystan, Qobustan) region and into Eastern Iran as a forerunner of the Hissar and related cultures.