Dietary hardness and abrasiveness are inferred from human dental microwear at Ohalo II, a late Upper Palaeolithic site (22,500-23,500 cal BP) in the southern Levant. Casts of molar grinding facets from two human skeletons were examined with a scanning electron microscope. The size and frequency of microwear was measured, counted, and compared to four prehistoric human groups from successive chr...

Repeated excavations of the area early Byzantine fort on Žirje, an island in Šibenik archipelago, resulted recovery a substantial amount movable finds, predominantly pottery. Most finds date to period Justinian's reconquista mid-6th century when was used, but there are also some artifacts earlier or later dating (Iron Age, Hellenistic and Imperial periods; medieval postmedieval periods) whose p...

abstract the subject matter of this paper is study of the simurgh pattern's reflection in islamic potteries and tiles of iran. author intends relying on some historic and literary principles as well as identification of drawing characteristics and symbolic concepts of simurgh, detect the cause of difference between islamic simurgh and sassanid simurgh. in addition, he aimed at tracing of p...

relying upon the theories concerned with the cultural evolution of anthropology and archaeology, and providing a brief review of the related literature, the present article conducts a careful examination of the evolutionary trends in pottery of the layers from the prehistoric periods of qal’eh kh?n. testing several variables affecting pottery, the article proposes that while cultural evolutioni...

the goal of this article is to study the shimashki potteries in the saymarreh valley. archaeological surveys conducted in the saymarreh valley shows that the painted pottery tradition of godin iii has become prevalent in the valley during the bronze age and only once, development of this pottery tradition had cracked. this event took place in the phase of godin iii4, which we relate it to the i...