Ladiz

Ladiz lies on the Sarhad plateau of southeastern Iran, near the river of the same name and the slopes of Taftan. The Ladiz River cuts through this dry upland, where archaeological finds show that people occupied the region in the Palaeolithic. Stone tools recovered along its course attest to a very old human presence. Near the settlement, water flows through a cave in the rocky terrain, a striking feature in a landscape of bare hills and scarce rainfall.