Kashafrud

Kaschafrūd, also Kaschaf Rūd, Kashafrūd or Kashaf Rūd (Persian کشفرود ), is an archaeological site of the Lower Palaeolithic southeast of Mashhad in northeastern Iran today. It lies on the river of the same is one of the most important rivers of the Iranian province of Razavi Khorasan. The artifacts found here, mostly seeds, are the oldest evidence of human occupation of Iran.

The French archaeologist C. Thibault found dated the Oldowan -style stone tools made ​​of quartz to 800,000 BC. Mousterian artefacts from the Middle Pleistocene also showed similarities with finds from the Caucasus to. The stones were re-analyzed in the Iranian National Museum, and sometimes delivered.