Wezmeh Cave is a paleontological and archaeological cave site near Islamabad Gharb, western Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. The site was discovered by a team of Iranian archaeologists headed by Dr. Kamyar Abdi

Kamyar Abdi

Kamyar Abdi is an Iranian archaeologist. He received his M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, at University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from University of Michigan in Anthropology . He has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College since 2002...

 in 1999. Later the site was excavated in 2001 by the same team.

Large numbers of animal fossil remains and a human tooth of Upper Paleolithic

Upper Paleolithic

The Upper Paleolithic is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. Very broadly it dates to between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, roughly coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity and before the advent of...

 age have been discovered so far in the cave. The human remains were studied by Erik Trinkaus

Erik Trinkaus

Erik Trinkaus, PhD, is a prominent paleoanthropologist and expert on Neanderthal biology and human evolution. Trinkaus researches the evolution of the species Homo sapiens and recent human diversity, focusing on the paleoanthropology and emergence of late archaic and early modern humans, and the...

 and Bruno Maureille. The animal remains belong to red fox, spotted hyena, brown bear, wolf, lion, leopard, equids, rhinoceros and etc. The faunal remains were studied by Dr. Marjan Mashkour

Marjan Mashkour

Marjan Mashkour received her Ph.D. in zooarchaeology in Paris and currently is a member of CNRS. She is the first Iranian who is specialized in the field of zooarchaeology and has been engaged in many field and laboratory projects in Iran and Near East. Her research interest is late Paleolithic...

 and her colleagues at the Natural History Museum

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...

in Paris.