The MUP Zagros Project: tracking the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Kermanshah region, west-central Zagros, Iran

In recent decades, the Eurasian Middle–Upper Palaeolithic (M–UP) transition has been a topic of major interest among palaeoanthropologists. Great progress has been made in several domains, particularly palaeogenetics, which have revealed the complex ancestry of early Eurasians. This progress—includi...

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Published in:Antiquity 2017-02, Vol.91 (355), p.1G-7G, Article e2
Main Authors: Heydari-Guran, Saman, Ghasidian, Elham
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archaeology
Caves
Cultural heritage
Cultural tradition
Excavation
Geographic distribution
Lithic
Modernity
Mountains
Paleolithic
Pleistocene
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Sequences
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Typological analysis
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Summary:In recent decades, the Eurasian Middle–Upper Palaeolithic (M–UP) transition has been a topic of major interest among palaeoanthropologists. Great progress has been made in several domains, particularly palaeogenetics, which have revealed the complex ancestry of early Eurasians. This progress—including the identification of a ghost lineage of Eurasians in the Middle East—is providing important new biogeographical hypotheses. A key region for such topics is the Iranian Plateau—an area that has so far not been subject to intensive research.
ISSN:0003-598X
1745-1744
DOI:10.15184/aqy.2016.261