Baradostian culture
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Baradostian culture is an Upper Palaeolithic flint industry culture in Kurdistan.
The Mousterian culture is followed by the Baradostian culture.
Radiocarbon dates suggest that this is one of the earliest Upper Palaeolithic complexes; it may have begun as early as 36000 BC. Its relationship to neighbouring industries however remains unclear. Perhaps caused by the maximum cold of the last phase of the most recent ice age or Wurm glaciation the Baradostian was replaced by a local Epi-Palaeolithic industry called the Zarzian culture. This tool tradition marks the end of the Iraqi Palaeolithic sequence .
