Maiwala ( fa, میوله,
Kurdish:میوله) or Farokhshad ( fa, فرخشاد) is a mountain of the
Zagros Mountains, located in western
Iran, north of the city of
Kermanshah. It is one of the mountains of Paraw range, with an altitude of 2445 above sea level. It is about 5 km long from the Tang-e Malavard at west to Taq-e Kenesht at east. The mountain contains several archaeological caves.
Archaeology
Archaeologists have discovered artifacts of the Paleolithic and historical periods on the southern slopes of the mountain. Three caves were occupied by Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic Period including
Do-Ashkaft Cave
The Do-Ashkaft Cave, being a Middle Paleolithic cave site, is located north of Kermanshah, near Taq-e Bostan, Iran about above sea level. Its entrance faces south of Meywala Mount, overlooking the national park of Kuhestan. The site was first ...
,
Malaverd
Malaverd is an archaeological site in the north of Kermanshah, in Iran. It is located in the Tang-e Malaverd valley, at the western end of Mount Meywala, about from the west of Taq-e Bostan. Malaverd is one of the Paleolithic cave sites in ...
, and
Dasht-e Kahou. Archaeological excavations have shown that about forty thousand years ago,
Neanderthal humans used natural outcrops of radiolarite or chert around this plain to make stone tools.
[Biglari, F., (2007) Approvisionnement et utilisation des matières premières au Paléolithique moyen dans la plaine de Kermanshah (Iran) : le cas de la Grotte Do-Ashkaft, Aires d'approvisionnement en matières premières et aires d'approvisionnement en ressources alimentaires, Approche intégrée des comportements. Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4–9 September 2006) Vol. 5, pp. 227-239. Edited by Marie-Hélène Moncel, Anne-Marie Moigne, Marta Arzarello and Carlo Peretto. BAR International Series 1725
]
Climbing routes
There are several routes to climb up to the peak.
Notes
Zagros Mountains
Mountains of Kermanshah province
Two-thousanders of Iran
Mountains of Iran