TEHRAN – The sixth season of archaeological excavations at QAL-E-Code Cave in Avarji County, Kazvin Province, Iran, said on Saturday that the Institute of Cultural Heritage was permitted.
Financially supported by the state’s Cultural Heritage Division, the project is co-led by Hamed Vadattinasab and Mirad Hashemi Salbandi, faculty members of the Archaeology Department at Talviat Modernes University.
Qal-e Kord Cave is located in a village of the same name in Avaj County. Previous excavations identified it as one of Iran’s oldest archaeological sites, and the deposits suggested the presence of humans more than 400,000 years ago, Vadatinasab said.
Knowing that the Qal-e Kord is home to Neanderthals, we are trying to get a chronology of the residents of these caves,” the archaeologist added. As you descend, you will discover old layers. ”
Stone tools recovered from the site indicate that early human species such as Homo Heidelbergensis and Homo Erectus were also inhabited. The rest of the animals discovered so far include two species of extinct prehistoric horses, deer, brown bears and rhinoceros.
In November 2018, the first season of the joint Iran-France excavation at the site discovered over 6,000 cultural artifacts, along with relics of horses, deer, bears and numerous stone tools bones from the mid-palised stone age between 200,000 and 40,000 years ago.
A 2019 survey published in the Journal of Human Evolution suggested that Neanderthals roamed the Zagros Mountains region of Iran 40,000 to 70,000 years ago.
The Neanderthals lived around the last ice age in the harsh Eurasian environment. They developed complex stone tools, hunted large games, cleaned them to collect local plants, and survived tens of thousands of years during the last ice age.
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