Ƙaurawar farko na ɗan adam a kudanci da gabashin Asiya wataƙila sun haɗa da hanyoyi ta Iran, yanki mai bambancin yanayin ƙasa da albarkatun da suka dace da farkon hominins.Kayayyakin dutse daga tsakuwa a gefen koguna da dama, da suka hada da Kashafrud, Mashkid, Ladiz, Sefidrud, Mahabad, da sauransu, na nuni da kasancewar mutanen farko.Mabuɗin wuraren zama na farko a Iran sune Kashafrud a cikin Khorasan, Mashkid da Ladiz a Sistan, Shiwatoo a Kurdistan, Ganj Par da Darband Cave a Gilan, Khaleseh a Zanjan, Tepe Gakia kusa da Kermanshah, ^[1] da Pal Barik a Ilam, sun haɗu daga shekaru miliyan daya da suka wuce zuwa shekaru 200,000 da suka wuce.An samo kayan aikin dutse na Mousterian, masu alaƙa da Neanderthals, a duk faɗin Iran, musamman a yankin Zagros da tsakiyar Iran a wurare kamar Kobeh, Kaldar, Bisetun, Qaleh Bozi, Tamtama, Warwasi.Wani sanannen bincike shine radius Neanderthal a cikin 1949 ta CS Coon a cikin Kogon Bisitun.^[2]Upper Paleolithic da Epipaleolithic shaida da farko sun fito ne daga yankin Zagros, tare da shafuka a Kermanshah da Khoramabad kamar Yafteh Cave.A cikin 2018, an gano haƙorin yaron Neanderthal a Kermanshah, tare da kayan aikin Paleolithic na Tsakiya.^[3] Zamanin Epipaleolithic, ya kai c.18,000 zuwa 11,000 KZ, ya ga mafarauta da ke zaune a cikin kogon dutsen Zagros, tare da karuwar farauta da tattara shuke-shuke da dabbobi, ciki har da ƙananan kasusuwa, pistachios, 'ya'yan itacen daji, katantanwa, da ƙananan dabbobin ruwa.