Iran Palaeolithic / Le Paleolithique D'iran

Papers from the session Iran Palaeolithic presented at the XV UISPP World Congress, September 2006. Contents: 1) The Middle Palaeolithic occupation of Mar-Tarik, a new Zagros Mousterian site in Bisotun massif (Kermanshah, Iran) (J. Jaubert et al.); 2) Test Excavations at the Middle Paleolithic Sites of Qaleh Bozi, Southwest of Central Iran. A Preliminary Report (Fereidoun Biglari et al.); 3) Whither the Aurignacian in the Middle East? Assessing the Zagros Upper Paleolithic (Deborah I. Olszewski); 4) A Typo-technological Study of an Upper Paleolithic Collection from Sefid-Ab, Central Iran (Sonia Shidrang); 5) Origines du Paleolithique superieur en Asie occidentale (Marcel Otte, Janusz K. Kozlowski); 6) The Upper Paleolithic faunal remains from Yafteh cave (central Zagros), 2005 campaign. A preliminary study (Marjane Mashkour et al.); 7) La sequence baradostienne de Yafteh (Khorramabad, Lorestan, Iran) (Jean-Guillaume Bordes, Sonia Shidrang); 8) Late Pleistocene Prehistory in Central Alborz: Preliminary Results of the French and Iranian Palaeoanthropological Programme 2006 on the excavation of Garm Roud 2 (Amol, Mazandaran) (Gilles Berillon et al.) 9) Iranian Paleolithic sites on Travertine and Tufa Formations (Saman Heydari, Elham Ghasidian, Nicholas J. Conard); 10) Late Palaeolithic cultural traditions in the Basht region of the Southwestern Zagros of Iran (Elham Ghasidian et al.); 11) The Open-air Late Paleolithic site of Bardia and the Paleolithic Occupation of the Qaleh Gusheh Sand Dunes, Esfahan Province, Iran (Nicholas J. Conard, Elham Ghasidian, Saman Heydari).