ESR/U-SERIES DATING OF THE PALAEOANTHROPOLOGICAL SITE OF QALEH KURD, IRAN - PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Jean-Jacques Bahain  1, *@  , Christophe Falguères  2@  , Olivier Tombret  3@  , Sébastien Nomade  4@  , Mohammad Akhavan Kharazian  5, 6, 7  , Pierre Antoine  8, 9  , Guillaume Jamet  7, 10  , Milad Hashemi  11  , Hamed Vahdati Nasab  11  , Gilles Berillon  12  
1 : Muséum national d'histoire naturelle  (MNHN)  -  Website
Ministère de l'Ecologie, du Développement Durable et de l'Energie, Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN)
57, rue Cuvier - 75231 Paris Cedex 05 -  France
2 : Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique
CNRS : UMR7194, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Université de Perpignan
Institut de Paléontologie Humaine 1, rue René Panhard 75013 Paris -  France
3 : Département Homme et Environnement du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
CNRS : UMR7194
1, rue René Panhard, 75013, Paris -  France
4 : Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR 8212, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ
CNRS : UMR8212
91118 Gif-sur-Yvette -  France
5 : 1UMR7194, CNRS, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, IPH, 1, rue René Panhard,
75013, Paris, France
6 : Ecole doctorale Géographie , Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
UFR 08
7 : Laboratoire de Géographie Physique Pierre Birot UMR 8591 CNRS-Université Paris 1, Meudon, France
UMR 8591
8 : Ecole doctorale Géographie (UFR 08), Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
UFR08
9 : Laboratoire de Géographie Physique Pierre Birot UMR 8591 CNRS-Université Paris 1, Meudon, France
UMR 8501
10 : GéoArchÉon Viéville-sous-les-Côtes, France
, France
11 : Department of Archeology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, IRAN
12 : 1UMR7194, CNRS, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, IPH, 1, rue René Panhard, 75013, Paris, France
UMR7194
* : Corresponding author

Recent excavations organized at Qaleh Kurd Cave (Qazvin Province, Iran) in the frame of the joint French and Iranian Palaeoanthropological Project (FIPP) have provided the discovery of one in situ human decidual tooth associated with Mousterian-like archaeological artefacts and paleontological remains with evidence of human butchery in a 3m thick stratigraphic sequence subdivided in two sedimentary sub-sequences. The upper sub-sequence 1 corresponds to Holocene deposits as demonstrated by radiocarbon dates ranging between 1,390 BP and 520 BP while the underlying sub-sequence 2 was dated by the same method older than 43,500 BP. In order to precise the age of this sub-sequence 2, herbivorous teeth were selected in two excavation trenches (Trench 1 and Trench 3) to be analyzed by ESR/U-series method. The preliminary ages obtained range from ca 15O to 450 ka, indicating that the main part of the sub-sequence 2 was deposited during the Middle Pleistocene. New analyses including in situ gamma dosimetry and additional ESR/U-series analyses would be performed in the few next years to confirm the antiquity of the dated levels, placing the site amongst the oldest human evidence in Iran.



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