 Entrance of the Darband Cave | |
  location in | |
| Location | Gilan Province |
|---|---|
| Region | northern Iran |
| Coordinates | 36°50′08″N 49°39′32″E / 36.83556°N 49.65889°E |
| History | |
| Periods | Lower Paleolithic |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 2012 |
| Archaeologists | Fereidoun Biglari |
Darband Cave is a Lower Paleolithic site in the Gilan Province in northern Iran, located on the north side of a deep tributary canyon of the Siahrud River, a tributary of the Sefīd-Rūd River that flows into the Caspian Sea.
The cave contains evidence of the earliest prehistoric human cave occupation during the Lower Paleolithic in Iran. Stone artifacts and animal fossils were discovered by a group of Iranian archaeologists of the Department of Paleolithic of the National Museum of Iran and ICHTO of Gilan. The site dates back to the late Middle Pleistocene period. The site was excavated by a team under the direction of Fereidoun Biglari in 2012 [1]
- ^ Biglari, F., V. Jahani, M. Mashkour, and S. Amini, 2014, Test Excavations at the Lower Paleolithic Site of Darband Cave, Roudbar, Gilan Province, 2012, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Symposium on the Iranian Archaeology, pp. 101-104, Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, Tehran.