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THE STONE AGE</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПАЛЕОЭКОЛОГИЯ. КАМЕННЫЙ ВЕК</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>First Evidence of Pleistocene Archaeology on the Neyshabur Plain and its Role in Reconstructing the Dispersal of Hominins on the Northeastern Iranian Plateau</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Sadraei</surname><given-names>A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>127 Haddon Pl., Montclair, NJ 07043</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">ali.sadrayi@ronininstitute.org</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Garazhian</surname><given-names>O.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>393 60 Kalmar</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">Garazhian.omran@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Sabori</surname><given-names>H.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Hakim Nezami St., P.O. Box 1744, Isfahan</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">hadisabori79@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>The Ronin Institute</institution><country>United States</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>Alice Babs gata 3A</institution><country>Sweden</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-3"><institution>Art University of Isfahan</institution><country>Islamic Republic of Iran</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2021</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>27</day><month>10</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>49</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>3</fpage><lpage>12</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Sadraei A., Garazhian O., Sabori H., 2021</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Sadraei A., Garazhian O., Sabori H.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Sadraei A., Garazhian O., Sabori H.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1283">https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1283</self-uri><abstract><p>The northeastern Iranian Plateau is considered a leading region in Paleolithic studies. The history of Paleolithic research in this region dates back to the mid-20th century. However, unlike the western and, to some extent, the central part of the Iranian Plateau, only a handful of sites have been identifi ed in the northeastern part. Field studies conducted on the Neyshabur plain have provided some of the only Paleolithic evidence at four locations in the foothills of the Binalud Mountains: Dar Behesht, Mushan Tappeh, Ali Abad, and Qezel Tappeh. Our research aims to assess this evidence, provide a revised typology of Pleistocene artifacts from the Neyshabur plain, and also study the role of these and other fi nds in the area and analyze their signifi cance in terms of the dispersal of Pleistocene hominin populations. We propose two main corridors on the northeastern Iranian Plateau assumed to have been infl uential in the dispersal of human ancestors.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Neyshabur plain</kwd><kwd>Pleistocene</kwd><kwd>northeastern Iranian Plateau</kwd><kwd>Paleolithic</kwd><kwd>hominin populations</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Alperson-Aftil N., Richter D., Goren-Inbar N. 2017 Evaluating the intensity of fire at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov – Spatial and thermoluminescence analyses. Plos One, vol. 16: 1–15.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Alperson-Aftil N., Richter D., Goren-Inbar N. 2017 Evaluating the intensity of fire at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov – Spatial and thermoluminescence analyses. 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