north-western iran comprises diverse geographical landscapes, including pastures of piedmonts, mountains, and well-watered plains. the present chronology of this region, nevertheless, is based exclusively on data collected from sites around the urmia lake, other regions being almost totally ignored. during the late bronze age (hereafter lba) a new way of life took shape in the mountainous regio...

In 1978, near the village of Shirakavan, Shirak region Republic Armenia, among burial complexes Late Bronze and Iron Age, was opened examined No. 17. According to specialists, it oriented from north south, had a ground chamber 1.70 x 0.80 1.20 m, equipped with two floor slabs. cell, skeleton lay on its right side in bent position, head north. Near his hand massive bronze standard, left - bowl. ...

Some scholars explain the absence of settlements in the Bohemian and Moravian Late Eneolithic (Corded Ware archaeological culture) as a consequence of pastoral subsistence with a high degree of mobility. However, recent archaeological studies argued that the archaeological record of the Late Eneolithic in Central Europe exhibits evidence for sedentary subsistence with mixed agriculture, similar...

In the present study six exceptional large size metallic nails, a dagger and a sickle from the Late Bronze Age archaeological site of Figueiredo das Donas (Central Portugal) have been analysed by EDXRF, micro-EDXRF and X-ray digital radiography for the study of material composition and technology of fabrication. The combination of these analytical and examination techniques showed that all arte...

Currently, there are some 222 records in the Nottinghamshire Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) which are relevant to the First Millennium B.C. These records include 19 finds of Late Bronze Age metalwork, 5 examples of Iron Age metalwork, 9 find-spots of Iron Age coins, 57 find-spots of pottery ascribed to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, 21 finds of other objects ascribed to these two periods, ...