Paleolithic

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  • Prehistoric Sites of the Khorramabad Valley and Iran’s deep past on UNESCO World Heritage List 2026-07-14 16:43

    By Sonia Shidrang, Assistant Professor at Shahid Beheshti University

    Prehistoric Sites of the Khorramabad Valley and Iran’s deep past on UNESCO World Heritage List

    This week marks the first anniversary of a milestone that reshaped how the world sees Iran’s ancient past. On July 11, 2025, during the 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Paris, the Paleolithic Sites of the Khorramabad Valley were inscribed on the World Heritage List—Iran’s 29th such site, and its first ever dedicated to the Paleolithic period.

  • Rethinking the Persian Gulf’s role in deep time human history 2026-05-04 22:02

    By Sepehr Zarei

    Rethinking the Persian Gulf’s role in deep time human history

    In contemporary political rhetoric, “returning to the Stone Age” is often invoked as a metaphor for collapse and backwardness—a phrase occasionally directed at Iran. Yet, from an archaeological perspective, this term carries a fundamentally different meaning.

  • Esfarayen 2025-12-30 15:58

    Prehistoric sites identified in Esfarayen

    TEHRAN--Targeted paleolithic studies, supported by North Khorasan Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department, began in the Esfarayen and Safiabad plains, during which valuable evidence of the presence of hunter-gatherer societies in this region was identified for the first time.

  • Evidence of Lower Paleolithic toolmakers may rewrite history of human migration to Iranian Plateau 2025-10-27 17:29

    Evidence of Lower Paleolithic toolmakers may rewrite history of human migration to Iranian Plateau

    TEHRAN - A massive prehistoric settlement discovered in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province is set to rewrite the history of early human migration to the Iranian Plateau, pushing back evidence of human presence in the region by hundreds of thousands of years.

  • Ancient stone artifacts in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province date back to Paleolithic era 2025-08-10 16:57

    Ancient stone artifacts in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province date back to Paleolithic era

    TEHRAN - Archaeological studies in Iran’s Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province have revealed that the region's earliest stone artifacts date back to the Upper Paleolithic and early Neolithic periods, according to local cultural heritage authorities.