Yafteh
Sign in to saveYafteh is a cave located at the foot of Yafteh Mountain in the western part of the Zagros Mountains range, northwest of Khoramabad, Lorestan Province (Western Iran). It is known for its Upper Paleolithic artefacts assigned to the Baradostian culture. It is part of the World Heritage site The Prehistoric Sites of the Khorramabad Valley (along with five other caves).
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Yafteh is a cave located at the foot of Yafteh Mountain in the western part of the Zagros Mountains range, northwest of Khoramabad, Lorestan Province (Western Iran). It is known for its Upper Paleolithic artefacts assigned to the Baradostian culture. It is part of the World Heritage site The Prehistoric Sites of the Khorramabad Valley (along with five other caves).
==Description== Yafteh has yielded the largest number of C14 dates from a single Paleolithic site in Iran that are clustered around 28–35 thousand years ago. A rich collection of ornaments made of marine shells, tooth and hematite has been discovered in the early Upper Paleolithic deposits in both early and recent excavations in the Yafteh cave. This collection was analyzed and published by Sonia Shidrang in the Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History.
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