New Chronology for the Middle Paleolithic Sequence of Kaldar Cave; Insights from the Third Excavation Season

Journal of Archaeology and Archaeometry

مقاله 1، دوره 1، شماره 2، آبان 2022، صفحه 1-11   

نوع مقاله: Research Article

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.30495/jaa.2022.694796

نویسندگان

Behrouz Bazgir^{* 1}؛ Elham Baharvand¹؛ Moloudsadat Azimi²؛ Jan van der Made³

¹Area de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Fac. de Lletres, Avenue Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain

²Iran’s Research Institute for Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism, Tehran, Iran

³Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.

چکیده

As a key archaeological site, Kaldar Cave provides evidence of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Iran. It is also one of the earliest sites with cultural materials attributed to early AMHs in western Asia. Apart from the earlier obtained dates from its Upper Paleolithic sequence, we provide here the recent obtained Thermoluminescence date from the layer 5. In this paper, we elaborate and corelate this dating to a broader discussion within the Zagros Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites. In this study, we also present a brief information on the freshly recovered lithic industries, Paleontological data, the obtained T.L dating and its position in the stratigraphic sequence

کلیدواژه‌ها

Dating؛ Thermoluminescence؛ Middle Paleolithic؛ Zagros Chronology؛ Kaldar Cave