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Emirian
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Key facts
- Archaeological culture.name
- Emiran culture
- Archaeological culture.region
- Levant, Arabia
- Archaeological culture.period
- Upper Paleolithic
- Archaeological culture.dates
- about 60,000–40,000 cal B.P.
- Archaeological culture.precededby
- Mousterian, Aterian
- Archaeological culture.followedby
- Bohunician, Ahmarian, Levantine Aurignacian
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- Emiran period
- Relationships
- See also
- References
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thumb|upright=1.2|Expansion of European early modern humans|early modern humans from Africa through the [[Levant.]]
Emiran culture was a culture that existed in the Levant (Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Arabia) between the Middle Paleolithic and the Upper Paleolithic periods. It is the oldest known of the Upper Paleolithic cultures and remains an enigma as it transitionally has no clear African progenitor. This has led some scholars to conclude that the Emiran is indigenous to the Levant. However, some argue that it reflects broader technological trends observed earlier in North Africa, at older sites like Taramsa 1 in Egypt, "which contains modern human remains dated to 75,000 years ago".