This overview on Sasanian stuccoes includes the Parthian sites hinting at a transmission of iconographies (i.e., Qaleh-I Zohak and Yazdgird), also with uncertain chronological attribution. On one hand, it underlines lack within Iranian plateau, other how majority was found in western territories. Noteworthy is examination illustrations some archaeological discoveries, i.e., Barz Qavela, Qela Go...

• Elemental and lead isotopic analysis of recently excavated Luristan bronzes. Contexts from Iron Age western Iran (ca.1000-800 BCE). Tin bronze metallurgy as the main technology in first millennium BCE Iran. Complex use metal resources to produce tin alloys. Use copper sources Iranian Plateau neighbouring areas. The emergence provenance Bronzes has been a subject interest for many decades. Thi...

OBJECTIVES From the ancient era, emergence of Agriculture in the connecting region of Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau at the foothills of the Zagros Mountains, made Iranian gene pool as an important source of populating the region. It has differentiated the population spread and different language groups. In order to trace the maternal genetic affinity between Iranians and other populations...

The Tracking Pleistocene Human Occupations in the East of Iran project was initiated with two field seasons 2020 and 2022. authors present results this fieldwork, which identified 176 Palaeolithic localities, demonstrating presence Lower Middle occupations Ferdows-Sarayan-Qaen plains.

the genus allactaga is a group of rodents with five morphospecies distributed in the iranian plateau. in order to conduct a taxonomic revision at the species level, 27 individuals were collected in the iranian plateau from localities typical of each species. phylogenetic relationships within species were analyzed using cytochrome oxidase subunit i and morphometric data. maximum parsimony, maxim...

New archaeological evidences of the so-called "Bactrian-Margiana Archaeological Complex" (= BMAC) has invited a change in our knowledge of the cultural relations between Oxus civilization and south-eastern Iran during the III-II millennium B.C. transition period. The new archaeological projects in southern and western Turkmenistan, as well as attested at Gonur Depe, have showed a wider and more...

In a wide range of the central boundaries of the Iranian plateau, encompassing an important part of the arid areas in Asia, the phenomenon of desertification is a long his tory. In this arid and waterless expanse, living conditions are fully dependent on access to water due to the supremacy of the Kavirs and deserts. The most important and oldest ways of obtaining water have been Qanat or Kariz...

La naissance de l’agriculture à l’est du Croissant Fertile, sur le plateau Iranien et jusqu’en Asie centrale en Sud, est relativement mal connue. L’aire concernée vaste les données archéologiques liées cette période, Néolithique, y sont extrêmement limitées. plupart des chercheurs s’accordent penser que la pratique domestication plantes animaux fut introduite depuis l’Asie Sud-Ouest, au même ti...