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Late Pleistocene environments in the southern Zagros of Iran and their implications for human evolution by Angel Blanco-Lapaz; Mario Mata-González; Britt M. Starkovich; Mohsen Zeidi; Nicholas J. Conard is a Earth and Planetary Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract The Zagros Mountains represent a strategic geographic region near the junction of Africa, Europe, and Asia, and valleys within the mountain range likely correspond to migration corridors used by archaic and modern humans. Ghar-e Boof, a key archeological site in the southern Zagros, is located at an altitude of 905 m.a.s.l. in the Dasht-e Rostam region of the Fars Province, Iran. On the basis of lithic artifacts and radiocarbon and luminescence dating, the Late Pleistocene archeological record of the site spans from the Middle Paleolithic (MP) to the Late Epipaleolithic. Ghar-e Boof includes find horizons of the early Upper Paleolithic (UP) Rostamian dating to 42–35 ka cal. BP. These Rostamian-UP assemblages are typically attributed to modern humans. The high-resolution stratigraphy and microvertebrate record offer a unique opportunity for reconstructing the paleoenvironment of the southern part of the Zagros Mountains during the Late Pleistocene and contribute to a better understanding of long-term hominin settlement dynamics and cultural adaptations in this area. The current paper presents the first analysis of the microvertebrate remains recovered by the Tübingen-Ira
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- Author
- Angel Blanco-Lapaz; Mario Mata-González; Britt M. Starkovich; Mohsen Zeidi; Nicholas J. Conard
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (Social Sciences)