The evolution of the concept of time, from the first hunters-gatherers communities of the Paleolithic to the Newtonian physics is shortly reviewed. In particular, attention id paid to the social needs that contributed to change this concept from the Prehistory to the Bronze Age and then to the Iron Age, the classical philosophy, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, up to the birth of modern sci...

Recent excavations at Pecica Şanţul Mare from 2006-2009 have produced a large and representative faunal assemblage from Dacian and Bronze Age contexts. In both periods, livestock husbandry was by far the most important source of meat, with hunting and trapping game, F shing, and collecting mollusks contributing secondarily. However, there are signiF cant diw erences between Iron and Bronze Age ...

The collapse of Bronze Age Mediterranean trade was a long-term process that took place through the 12th and 11th centuries BCE. effects this decline were particularly acute for coastal cities such as Philistine Ashkelon. This paper examines response to crisis in Philistia by examining redactional strata Deuteronomistic History might speak period early activity highlands. Through memories preser...

Currently, incomparable dating systems are used in archaeology, based on historical chronology, dendrochronology, and two types of radiocarbon dates: LSC AMS. But the latter suggest, as a rule, earlier dates. Contrary to this, intervals chronology dendrochronology quite comparable. And obtained by means Bayesian statistics AMS dates very close. The problem is also aggravated fact that use stand...

we studied the prevalence of iron-deficiency anaemia in women of reproductive age, between 15 to 49, with a mean age of 31-56±1.34 years, attending mirzakoochak khan hospital ob. gyn. center for routine gynecological and obstetrical examination. we compa'tred mean values for the serum tests and haematological data and investigated etiological factors such as age, marital status, education, spou...

The differential diagnosis of the bony lesions known as porotic hyperostosis found on a Bronze Age child's skull is discussed. Keith and Shattock gave an opinion in 1923 that the cause was rickets. A firm conclusion is not reached in this paper, but it is suggested that it was more likely to have been an iron-deficiency anaemia.

Metals have exerted a significant influence throughout the history of mankind, so much that different periods development often been marked with name some material: bronze age and iron [...]