Vol. 1, 2010

Especial issue: Recent Research on the Iranian Paleolithic

Introductory Note ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Fereidoun Biglari

A Preliminary Report on the Investigations of the Lower Paleolithic site of Khaleseh in the Khoram Dareh Valley, Zanjan ............................................ 8

Sajad Alibaigi, Kamal Aldin Niknami and Shokouh Khosravi

Preliminary Report on the Discovery of a late lower Paleolithic and Middle Paleolithic Site on the Island of Qeshm, Persian Gulf ............................... 15

Abdolreza Dashtizadeh

Paléolithique moyen récent de la grotte de Qaleh Bozi 2 (Esfahan, Iran), premiers résultats de la campagne 2008 ....................................................... 21

Jacques Jaubert, Fereidoun Biglari, Rémy Crassard, Marjan Mashkour, William Rendu, et Sonia Shidrang

Faunal remains from the Epi-Paleolithic site of Komishan Cave and its dating, preliminary results..................................................................................... 32

Marjan Mashkour, Jawana Chahoud and Ali Mahforouzi

A Note on Recent Paleolithic Surveys in the Kuhdasht Region, the Lorestan Province, Iran................................................................................................... 38

Babak Moradi and Fatemeh Bakhtiari

Papers in Persian

Arasanj: New evidence of Middle Paleolithic occupation at the Qazvin Plain, Iran ................................................................................. 6

Omid Masoumi, Azar Johar and Soraya Afshari

New Found Pictographs from Abdozou Rockshelter, Firouz Abad, Southern Zagros................................................................................................................ 17

Taher Ghasimi, Cyrus Barfi and Reza Norouzi

Wargar: a New Late Neolithic Site at East of Dorood Faraman, the Kermanshah Region, Central Western Zagros ........................................................ 27

Alireza Moradi Bisetuni

A Chronology of Uruk Artifacts from Godin Tepe in Central Western Iran and Implications for the Interrelationships between the Local and

Foreign Cultures

Badler, V., translated by Mohammad Karami ............................................................................................................................................................................. 35

Kura-Araxes Culture, Early Trans-Caucasian or Yanik.................................................................................................................................................................... 69

Karim Alizadeh

Introduction to Structures Known as Tal-e Khandagh in Ancient Fars Province, Iran............................................................................................................... 86

Parsa Ghasemi

A Samanid Copper Coin from Shahr-i-Belqays, Isfarayen............................................................................................................................................................. 97

Ali A. Vahdati

A short report of the congress of potentials and possibilities in archaeology education in Iran........................................................................................... 102

Emran Garazhian