Zarzi Cave

Zarzi Cave is an important prehistoric rock shelter near Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. Excavated first by Dorothy Garrod in 1928 and later by Ghanim Wahida in 1971, the cave preserves evidence of Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer occupation in the Zagros Mountains. Its small stone tools, known as microliths, became so characteristic that the wider regional tradition was named the Zarzian culture.

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