چکیده:
The Warwasi (Iran) sequence contains Early Zagros Aurignacian, Late Zagros Aurignacian, and Zarzian lithic assemblages.
By examining attributes of the lithic assemblages from each of the 10 cm arbitrary levels, several patterns characteristic of each of
chronological block of deposits emerge. These document aspects of how the Warwasi rockshelter was used at certain points in time, but
are not necessarily statements about base versus task camps or duration of site visits. This is because each level and each chronological
block represents time-averaged activities (tasks, discard, and artifact transport) that form cumulative palimpsests. While the patterning
at Warwasi provides a view of change over time for this site, this sequence cannot automatically be widely or broadly applied to other
sites in the Zagros Mountains region. Comparisons to the Upper Paleolithic cumulative palimpsest deposits at Yafteh Cave and Ghār-e
Boof suggest why such comparisons must be carefully considered.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Abstract: Keywords: Zagros Aurignacian, Zarzian, Chipped Stone Industry, Warwasi, Ghār-e Boof Introduction The rockshelter site of Warwasi in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran contains a long sequence of deposits with lithic assemblages ranging from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic to the Epipaleolithic (Braidwood et al.
Lithic densities, the Warwasi Upper Paleolithic component has been debitage, cores, and tools through the Warwasi sequence described as the Zagros Aurignacian, a facies similar to form the basis for the observations and interpretations some entities found in the Levant and in Europe (e.
For example, similar tool and core densities in AA), while the Late Zagros Aurignacian and the Zarzian the Early and Late Zagros Aurignacian suggest a similar are blade/bladelet industries (Olszewski 1993a, b, 2001: use of the rockshelter throughout the Upper Paleolithic.
This is seen also in Fig. 4, where this case, with the number of tools per core comparable the shift from abundant flakes (cortical, partially cortical, throughout these deposits, this may indicate that the range and noncortical combined) to bladelets (and some blades) of activities during site visits remained relatively constant begins to occur in Levels BB and AA near the transition into and/or that artifacts were transported into and out of the the Late Zagros Aurignacian.
Finally, while it is perhaps unsurprising that the Late Zagros Aurignacian and Zarzian are dominated by bladelet debitage, it is intriguing that the Zarzian shows a greater abundance of blade debitage than the Upper Paleolithic sequence, as Epipaleolithic assemblages in the greater Middle East (particularly the Levant) often contain very few blades (e.