Siega Verde was the third open-air rock art site to be discovered in Iberian Peninsula, even before Côa and controversy that followed discovery. Its practicable size study carried out without any publicity allowed analysis of a new reality would change interpretation Palaeolithic art. From start research, stylistic criteria were used date absence archaeological excavations. Although this has of...

Abstract This paper explores a new perspective to study the settlement dynamics of riverine landscapes by addressing human–environment interaction in Ancient Near East through integration remote sensing, geodata, and developing definition category watercourse. The complex entangled network watercourses archaeologically crucial region southwestern Iran, Greater Susiana, hinders clear view spatia...

Abstract The fossil record of the cave lion, Panthera spelaea , suggests a gradual decrease in body size, process peaking just before extinction species at end Late Pleistocene. Such an evolutionary trend appears rather unusual for large felid and requires further investigation. This study reviews lions Ukraine, whose fossils are known from 46 localities dated 800 kyr to 18–17 ago, with special...

Abstract Research in 1970 vaulted Becán to prominence on the landscape of great Maya centers. Mapping, excavation, and ceramic stratigraphy revealed that its enigmatic earthwork, first recorded archaeologically 1934, was a fortification built at end Preclassic period. Large-scale warfare thus unexpectedly turned out have very deep roots lowlands. The site's wider implications remained obscure, ...

Archaic projectile points from the Andean Altiplano exhibit a curious trend of increasing size over time, in contrast to well-documented reduction throughout North America. Although number hypotheses exist account for decreasing projectile-point size, there are currently no explicit explanations size. We consider several and interrogate two techno-economic hypotheses. posit that point compensat...

Dasht-e Lut (Lut Desert) is archaeologically well-known in Near East thanks to the presence, on its western edge, of the Bronze Age urban centre of Shahdad. In 2012, the author launched a three-season field project in the area of Shahdad, with an agenda articulated around three main research points: an extensive archaeological survey along the western edge of the Lut Desert, the stratigraphic e...

The Tver Region is a fractional polycentric space, saturated with historical and historical-geographical meanings, primarily as set of many local identities rooted deep in history. structure the region, weakness administrative center are reasons for special processes spatial self-organization society - formation vernacular areas that exist part folk culture. As area, Upper Volga region distingu...

ABSTRACT We investigate archaeologically how the metallicity in both stellar and gaseous components of spiral galaxies differing masses evolve with time, using data from SDSS-IV MaNGA survey. For component, we can measure this evolution directly by decomposing galaxy absorption-line spectra into populations different ages determining their metallicities. only present-day emission lines. However...

this study assumes areas between the central zagros region and central plateau of to play an important role in the shaping social and economic complexity and the formation of urban infrastructure during the late chalcolithic period of the region. regarding the issue an archaeological survey conducted in the area, 39 sites were identified and were archaeologically analyzed. for spatial data anal...

Abstract By the time of Kublai’s death, Mongol Empire had fractured into four separate khanates or empires including Golden Horde [Kipchak] in northwest, Chagatai Khanate Central Asia, Ilkhanate, based modern-day Iran, and Yuan Dynasty east. Although burial architecture their funeral ritual have been foci archaeologist, there no convincing conclusions about other branches Empire. According to h...