with almost 32,000 charred seed and chaff remains, the high density of seed and chaff remains at chogha golan is notable when compared to contemporary sites and even later, bronze age sites. 110 different species of plants have been discovered at chogha golan. the plant assemblage is dominated by specimens from the poaceae and fabaceae families: wild barley, "aegilops", lentil, "lathyrus", "pisum" and "vicia". the wild varieties of several neolithic founder crops were discovered at the site: barley, wheat, lentil and grass pea.