Fertile Crescent: Europe: Africa: Siberia: Emiran culture was a culture that existed in the Levant (Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Arabia) between the Middle Paleolithic and the Upper Paleolithic periods.

It is the oldest known of the Upper Paleolithic cultures and remains an enigma as it transitionally has no clear African progenitor.

[4] However, some argue that it reflects broader technological trends observed earlier in North Africa, at older sites like Taramsa 1 in Egypt, "which contains modern human remains dated to 75,000 years ago".

The Emireh point is the type tool of stage one of the Upper Paleolithic, first identified in the Emiran culture.

[6] Numerous stone blade tools were used, including curved knives similar to those found in the Châtelperronian culture of Western Europe.