INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
of western Iran.According to the top Iranian archaeologist, Saman Heydari-Guran, rock art discovered in Bawa Yawan, is the oldest evidence
of human ethology based on signs in the Iranian plateau.Those rock arts open us a direct window to the complex human behavior that is
art has been discovered in various forms across the globe, including rock-carved portraits and abstract signs
rock arts and abstract concepts had been discovered in different areas such as Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia, they have been
the subject of extensive research for these regions
layer associated with rock art at Bawa Yawan is estimated to date from 13,400 years ago, the archaeologist added.According to an article
co-authored by Heydari-Guran, Nemat Hariri, Martin Kehl, Samran Asiabani, Faramarz Azizi, and Elham Ghasidian, excavations at the Bawa Yawan
rock shelter have obtained a long history of hominin occupation from the Middle Paleolithic (MP) to the Epipaleolithic periods
chronostratigraphic data have revealed that the Neanderthal occupation in this area declined dramatically to around 43 kyr
After this period, the area experienced a slight growth in MP occupation
We argue in this paper that Neanderthal societies were able to endure during one of the harsher climatic periods and temporarily revived
their demography just before their extinction.The authors say the Bawa Yawan rock shelter represents the first Paleolithic site in the whole
Plate that is wedged between the Arabian and Indian Plates
The Zagros Mountains consist of almost all the western and southwestern Iranian Plateau, forming a continuous range made up of numerous
to the article, suggests that they were a resilient hominin subspecies
Archaeological records and fossil evidence show that towards their extinction, their territory was dramatically limited for various reasons,
including restricted food resources.AFM
