🇱🇧 Lebanon · Cave
Ksar Akil
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (c.50,000–20,000 BP) · Levallois-Mousterian → IUP → Levantine Aurignacian → Kebaran
Levantine UP type rockshelter (23 m, 50–20 ka, Egbert, IUP→Aurignacian) 10 km NE Beirut.
🇮🇷 Iran · Cave
Yafteh Cave
Upper Palaeolithic (c.35,000–30,000 BP) · Baradostian (Zagros Aurignacian)
UP Aurignacian cave (35–30 ka, Baradostian blades, shell beads) west of Khorramabad.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Chauvet Cave
Aurignacian, Upper Paleolithic (~37,000–33,000 BCE) · Aurignacian hunter-gatherer
Sealed Aurignacian cave above the Ardèche gorge containing the earliest known figurative art, with over 430 animal representations including woolly rhinoceros, cave lions, panthers and megaloceros…