Revisiting Hazar Merd Cave: 100 years after Dorothy Garrod’s excavations

First excavated in 1928 by Dorothy Garrod, Hazar Merd represents the earliest documented Palaeolithic site in the Zagros Mountains and a landmark in regional archaeological research. Nearly a century later, renewed investigations are refining the site’s stratigraphy and cultural sequence, providing a more nuanced understanding of its long-term occupation.

Authors

Saber Ahmed Saber
Faramarz Azizi
Saman Heydari‐Guran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7668-8804)
Francesco Berna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3839-4012)
Nemat Hariri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6190-7544)
Stefano Benazzi
Hashim Hama Abdulla

Institutions

University of Siena (IT)
University of Cologne (DE)
University of Tehran (IR)
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences (IN)
Ministry of Antiquities (EG)
University of Bologna (IT)

Publication Details

Journal: Antiquity
Published: 2026-06-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10368
Primary Topic: Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Type: article
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Revisiting Hazar Merd Cave: 100 years after Dorothy Garrod’s excavations

Saber Ahmed Saber, Faramarz Azizi, Saman Heydari‐Guran, Francesco Berna et al.

Jun 16, 2026

Antiquity

Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

article

Revisiting Hazar Merd Cave: 100 years after Dorothy Garrod’s excavations

Saber Ahmed Saber, Faramarz Azizi, Saman Heydari‐Guran, Francesco Berna, Nemat Hariri, Stefano Benazzi, Hashim Hama Abdulla

June 16, 2026article en

Abstract

First excavated in 1928 by Dorothy Garrod, Hazar Merd represents the earliest documented Palaeolithic site in the Zagros Mountains and a landmark in regional archaeological research. Nearly a century later, renewed investigations are refining the site’s stratigraphy and cultural sequence, providing a more nuanced understanding of its long-term occupation.

Antiquity

University of Siena (IT), University of Cologne (DE), University of Tehran (IR), Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences (IN), Ministry of Antiquities (EG), University of Bologna (IT)

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Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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