Two markers of regional exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE are the White Painted and Bichrome Wares from Cyprus's Cypro-Geometric and Cypro-Archaic periods. Although these ceramics are often assumed to be imports from Cyprus, excavations in southern Turkey at sites such as Tarsus-Gözlükule, Kilise Tepe, Sirkeli Höyük, and Kinet Höyük suggest that at least some...

The Effect of Provincial Policies on the COVID-19 Mortality Rate: Risk Analysis Study in Hamadan Province

Soil ingestion can be a major route of human exposure to many immobile soil contaminants. The present risk assessment is based on toxicity studies in which contaminants are typically ingested in liquid or food matrices. The difference in bioavailability of contaminants ingested in a soil matrix is not taken into account. To become bioavailable, contaminants first need to become bioaccessible, i...

Cultural change can be quantified by temporal changes in frequency of different cultural artefacts and it is a central question to identify what underlying cultural transmission processes could have caused the observed frequency changes. Observed changes, however, often describe the dynamics in samples of the population of artefacts, whereas transmission processes act on the whole population. H...

In an interesting study recently published by your journal, Eini et al 1 addressed the epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings among patients with brucellosis. They used hospital data in Hamadan. Accordingly, hospital admissions are selective and may lead to bias. Authors reported majority of patients (72.2%) were from rural areas in Hamadan City. This key finding has been supported b...

with the development of the silk road in early islam, the pottery art of northern and north-eastern parts of iran were affected by imported chinese pottery. at that time, the most common way of glaze decoration in china was a method called “sancai” which found its way to iran through this business route and became a source of imitation for iranian artists. in this technique, known as glaze, the...

Monagrillo (3520–1300 cal BC) is Panama’s oldest pottery. Archaeologists assumed it was a low-fired expedient ware made with any available clay. We studied 1) clay sources (thin sections; DTA; shrinkage, porosity, and plasticity tests), 2) manufacturing techniques (xeroradiography; thin sections; visual inspection), and 3) firing temperature (SEM-EDS; porosity tests). We identified two clay typ...