Almost 90 percent of Iran's rock art consists of the ibex motif.
The ibex for the prehistoric inhabitants of what is now known as Iran appears to have received the same apotheosis as the eland for the San in what is now known as South Africa.
The ibex would have been a source of meat and secondary products such as horn and hide. Archaeological evidence shows that it was hunted in Iran from the Middle Paleolithic period onwards, at the Warwasi and Yāfte Cave (ca. 38,000-29,000 B.C.E.) sites where it was the dominant species represented.Studies of horn cores from the early Neolithic sites of Tappe Ali Kos and Tappe Sabz indicate that ibex were being hunted in the late 8th and 7th millennia B.C.E...
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Bradshaw Foundation
The ibex for the prehistoric inhabitants of what is now known as Iran appears to have received the same apotheosis as the eland for the San in what is now known as South Africa.
The ibex would have been a source of meat and secondary products such as horn and hide. Archaeological evidence shows that it was hunted in Iran from the Middle Paleolithic period onwards, at the Warwasi and Yāfte Cave (ca. 38,000-29,000 B.C.E.) sites where it was the dominant species represented.Studies of horn cores from the early Neolithic sites of Tappe Ali Kos and Tappe Sabz indicate that ibex were being hunted in the late 8th and 7th millennia B.C.E...
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Bradshaw Foundation
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