Wezmeh
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| Location: | Kermanshah Province , Iran | |
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34 ° 3 '30.9 " N , 46 ° 38' 52.6" E | |
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The Wezmeh Cave ( Persian غار وزمه Ghār-e Wezme ) is a paleontological and archaeological excavation site in the province of Kermanshah in western Iran . The site was discovered in 1999 by a team of Iranian archaeologists led by Kamyar Abdi and excavated in 2001. A large number of remains of animal fossils and a human tooth from the Upper Paleolithic were discovered. The human remains were examined by Erik Trinkaus and Bruno Maureille . The fossils belong to red fox , spotted hyena , brown bear , wolf , lion , leopard , equidae , rhinoceros and other species. They were examined by Marjan Mashkour and her colleagues at the Natural History Museum in Paris .
literature
- M. Mashkour, H. Monchot, E. Trinkaus, JL. Reyss, F. Biglari, S. Bailon, S. Heydari, K. Abdi: Carnivores and their prey in the Wezmeh Cave (Kermanshah, Iran): A Late Pleistocene refuge in the Zagros . In: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology . tape 19 , 2009, p. 678-694 .
- K. Abdi, F. Biglari and S. Heydari: Islamabad project 2001: Test excavations at Wezmeh Cave . In: Archaeological communications from Iran and Turan . tape 34 , 2002.