Epipaleoithic Site Discovery in Southeastern of Iran, Rayen

In spring 2012 an archaeological survey was conducted within the Rayen region in order to explore all archaeological periods and document settlement patterns of all archaeological sites in the region. In general 52 archaeological sites were discovered and documented which are included all prehistoric and historical sites. Among these sites, 3 of them seem to belong to the Paleolithic period. This paper aims to examine one of them, based on the available materials, technological and typological characteristics, seems to lead toward the Epi-Paleolithic, which are slightly known from other parts of Iran. This specific era in Iranian Paleolithic studies and its existence and all its characteristics, complexity and their distributions around the country are highly unknown, especially from the southeastern Iran. Since this site is an open air location, the only way to determine its approximate date is to study and classify the available materials. In order to achieve this, a number of analyses have been carried out on the technological and typological characteristics of the lithic of this site. In this paper the Lithics and their technological and typological characteristics have been studied in order to examine and determine the main production techniques and its approximate date.