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DOI	10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101292
	The Paleolithic of the Iranian Plateau: Hominin occupation history and implications for human dispersals across southern Asia
	Shoaee, Mohammad Javad; Nasab, Hamed Vahdati; Petraglia, Michael D.
通讯作者	Shoaee, MJ (corresponding author), Max Planck Inst Sci Human Hist, Dept Archaeol, Kahlaische Str 10, D-07745 Jena, Thuringia, Germany.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
ISSN	0278-4165
EISSN	1090-2686
出版年	2021
卷号	62
英文摘要	The biological and cultural evolution of hominins in Asia is a central topic of paleoanthropology. Yet, the Paleolithic archaeology of key regions of Asia, including the Iranian plateau, have not been integrated into human evolutionary studies. Here, we examine the prehistory of the Iranian plateau with a focus on Iran, one of the largest and archaeologically best-known countries in the region. After approximately eight decades of professional fieldwork on the Paleolithic in Iran, a broad outline of the occupation history of the region has been achieved, though significant gaps remain in understanding the evolution and behavior of hominins in the region. Here we examine the history of Paleolithic investigations, synthesizing key archaeological information from the Lower Paleolithic to the EpiPaleolithic, placing emphasis on archaeological sites with stratified deposits and dated finds. We collect and summarize information on site locations, chronologies, rare hominin fossils, the more common lithic assemblages, and scarce worked items and symbolic objects. Our study documents considerable chronological and archaeological gaps in the Lower Paleolithic record, although Acheulean sites with characteristic lithics are present signaling the early colonization of the region by early hominin ancestors. The early Middle Paleolithic is poorly known owing to dating lacunae, although more abundant evidence is available from younger sites after 50,000 years ago (ka), spanning the late Middle Paleolithic, the Upper Paleolithic and the EpiPaleolithic. The fossil and archaeological evidence indicates the presence of Neanderthals in the Iranian plateau and later, Homo sapiens. The distribution of Lower to EpiPaleolithic sites are examined here, indicating both overlaps and divergences in the use of geographic areas, while pointing to large-scale research gaps in archaeological coverage. Key dispersal models are summarized, illustrating alternative views on the routes of human expansions in the Late Pleistocene, and how the Iranian plateau situates relative to the Levant, Arabia and Central Asia.
英文关键词	Pleistocene Climate Lithic Assemblages Neanderthals Homo sapiens
类型	Review
语种	英语
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000670094200002
WOS关键词	LATE PLEISTOCENE ; ZAGROS MOUNTAINS ; RADIOCARBON-DATES ; CENTRAL DESERT ; FLOWER BURIAL ; NORTHERN EDGE ; HOMO-SAPIENS ; YAFTEH CAVE ; MIDDLE-EAST ; WEZMEH CAVE
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/350659
作者单位	[Shoaee, Mohammad Javad; Petraglia, Michael D.] Max Planck Inst Sci Human Hist, Dept Archaeol, Kahlaische Str 10, D-07745 Jena, Thuringia, Germany; [Nasab, Hamed Vahdati] Tarbiat Modares Univ, Fac Humanities, Dept Archaeol, Tehran, Iran; [Petraglia, Michael D.] Smithsonian Inst, Human Origins Program, Washington, DC 20560 USA; [Petraglia, Michael D.] Univ Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Brisbane, Qld, Australia; [Petraglia, Michael D.] Griffith Univ, Australian Res Ctr Human Evolut ARCHE, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shoaee, Mohammad Javad,Nasab, Hamed Vahdati,Petraglia, Michael D.. The Paleolithic of the Iranian Plateau: Hominin occupation history and implications for human dispersals across southern Asia[J],2021,62.
APA	Shoaee, Mohammad Javad,Nasab, Hamed Vahdati,&Petraglia, Michael D..(2021).The Paleolithic of the Iranian Plateau: Hominin occupation history and implications for human dispersals across southern Asia.JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY,62.
MLA	Shoaee, Mohammad Javad,et al."The Paleolithic of the Iranian Plateau: Hominin occupation history and implications for human dispersals across southern Asia".JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 62(2021).