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International audience; Tappeh Qazānchi, not far from the Razavar river, is located to the northwest of Kermanshah city at 1323 masl. Parts of the north and east sides of the mound have been damaged by agricultural activities. As a result, 100 m of the northern section has been exposed, and has been found to contain cultural sequences from throughout the Holocene. The site was sounded during the winter of 2019 to identify the cultural sequences, site formation and settlement patterns present. The extent of the core area was estimated to be ca. 2 hectares, following sounding results in test trenches that were excavated in order to define the core area and buffer zone. The first results from the stratigraphic excavation and the relative and absolute chronologies indicate that the upper levels of the site belong to the Middle Bronze Age and the Late Chalcolithic periods, and the lower levels contain a Pre-Pottery Neolithic sequence. The results of archaeobotanical, archaeozoological, micromorphological and palaeoclimatological studies point to a localised wet environment during the Holocene with periodically flooded zones around the site. Tappeh Qazānchi is comparable to the Middle Bronze Age of Chogha Maran (upper phase) and Godin Tepe (Period III), as well as the Late Chalcolithic of Siahbid (middle and late phases) and GodinTepe (Period IX), that are located in the same cultural range in Central Zagros. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic phases at Qazānchi are also contemporaneous to East Chia Sabz, Sheikh-e Abad, Kelek Asad Morad and Chogha Golan, and this is also one of the first settlements in the early Holocene in the east of the Fertile Crescent.