The second season of the archaeological survey of Qeshm Island was conducted during the winter of 2012, during which the team identified a total of 138 sites. The preliminary analysis of the ceramic assemblage from these sites suggests that 5 sites date to the 3rd millennium B.C.(Bronze Age) and represent the earliest in the directory. The remainder includes 3 Iron Age, 4 Achaemenid, 23 Parthia...

Recent archaeological research has highlighted the potential role of mobile pastoral groups in diffusion raw materials and technological innovations between southern Caucasus north-western Iran from Neolithic onwards. Two successive projects, PAST-OBS SCOPE, were designed to explore this hypothesis through study obsidian consumption patterns Bronze Age using a flexible analytical strategy that ...

This article is the result of archaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations carried out within scope ANSOR project in Sorraia valley (Coruche), on left bank Lower Tagus. In analysis settlement dynamics between 5500 1800 a.n.e. we considered four moments: 1) The first peasant societies ancient Neolithic; 2) Middle Late 3) Chalcolithic; 4) Early Bronze Age. was also framed framework Center...

Mobility is one of the most important processes shaping spatiotemporal patterns of variation in genetic, morphological, and cultural traits. However, current approaches for inferring past migration episodes in the fields of archaeology and population genetics lack either temporal resolution or formal quantification of the underlying mobility, are poorly suited to spatially and temporally sparse...

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...