Agriculture based on broomcorn and foxtail millet has been identified as one of the main drivers population expansion and/or resource innovation transfer across Neolithic Bronze Age Eurasia. However, accurate reconstruction spatio-temporal patterns spread within outside China remains a challenging issue. Here we use representative set 27 millet-based radiocarbon (14C) dates from southern Primor...

From the cultural-geographical perspective, the Qom plain is part of the cultural area of ​​the Central Plateau of Iran. Archaeologically, this region had many contacts with other areas of the Central Plateau such as the plains of Kāshān, Sāveh, Qazvin, and Rey. It also had relations with the synchronous centers in the northeast, northwest, central Zāgros, and Khuzestān plain. This is due to it...

archaeologically, the hybrid and mythological motif of people-scorpion, as presented in both forms of man-scorpion and woman-scorpion, in the horizon of bronze age cultures in the plateau of iran, merely, is reported from the archaeological sites of jiroft in the halil rood basin, southwest iran. in mesopotamia, the people-scorpion is presented as the guardian monster for the gates of dead peop...

Bustān al-Salāṭīn is a traditional Islamic text that tells about the history of Malay Islam, especially Aceh. Written in 17th century by Shaykh al-Islām named Nūr al-Dīn al-Ranīrī (d. 1659), who was then under rule Sultan Iskandar Thani (1636-1641). This article discusses how represents formation Aceh sultanate government system, sultan power when this manuscript written, their political behavi...

some of the iranian artworks during the 10th-14th centuries have been illustrated by narrative scenes showing a cavalier archer king in the hunting ground of gazelles; while a tiny lyre playing girl sat back him. according to shāhnāma-i-fērdowsī and haft peykar-i- nizami ganjavi, such scenes narrate the story of sassanid king bahram-i- gūr and āzāda, his lyre player servant girl. it should be n...

Gestures, theatrical performances, face-to-face interactions, dances and any other symbolic activity that does not use material objects is often irremediably lost in the archaeological perspective. Anthropological studies can provide countless examples, but most importantly, the archaeological research confirms the importance of symbolism and rituality. For example, theatre for Greeks and Roman...

Modern high resolution 3D-measuring techniques are widely used in quality control and industrial production, because they allow precise and reliable inspection of objects. Their potential to monitor surfaces, however, must not be restricted to industrial objects. Also in cultural heritage applications a detailed and reliable spatial description of surfaces is often useful and opens up new possi...

Rebuilt in the years 1958-1980 Renaissance style with elements of Gothic, Castle Pomeranian Dukes from Griffin dynasty Szczecin is located on a promontory high western escarpment Odra river valley, within non-existent medieval perimeter walls city, area today's Rycerska, Kuśnierska, Mściwoja and so-called Route. Below castle, there partly rebuilt lower town called Podzamcze. Reconstructed forms...

Earthquakes have and continue to, occur worldwide, though some places are affected more than others by earthquake-induced ground shaking the same earthquake can cause damage in one area nearby locations due to site-specific geological site conditions, also known as local effects. Depending on chronology of earthquakes, various disciplines seismology include instrumental historical seismology, a...

INTRODUCTION Rightmire et al.’s (2006) recent study of three late Pleistocene human metatarsal bones from Klasies River main site, situated on the southern coast of South Africa provides valuable insights into Middle Stone Age (MSA) occupation of these archaeologically informative deposits. Although there is still some debate on the age of the site (Parkington 1990; Wolpoff 1989), the general c...