Yafteh

Yafteh is an Upper Paleolithic cave located at the foot of Yafteh Mountain in the Zagros Mountains range, located northwest of Khoramabad in western Zagros, Lorestan Province of western Iran.

Yafteh has yielded the largest number of C14 dates from a single Paleolithic site in Iran that are clustered around 28–35 thousand years ago.

This collection was analyzed and published by Sonia Shidrang in the Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History.

The site was found and later excavated by two American archaeologists, Frank Hole and Kent Flannery, in the 1960s.

It contained a thick Upper Paleolithic sequence which yielded bladelets and tools.