Bhakar Fort: A Historical and Archaeological Prospective

Proposing a Function for Char-Ghapi, Qasr-e-Shirin, Iran: Historical and Archaeological Evaluation

Qasr-e Shirin owes its prominence primarily to the Sassanian period and the attention the region received from Khosrow Parviz. Khosrow took the first steps to make Qasr-e-Shirin habitable by constructing a complex consisting of a palace, a fortress, a religious building, a defensive wall and a water conveyance system. Later, Qasr-e-Shirin is mentioned in several texts and travel itineraries. Th...

Historical antecedents to archaeological resource management

Historical Prospective

This review presents a brief historical prospective of the genesis of regulated medication in the US racing industry of which the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug phenylbutazone (PBZ) is the focus. It presents some historical guide posts in the development of the current rules on the use on PBZ by racing jurisdictions in the US. Based on its prevalent use, PBZ still remains a focus of atten...

Geophysical, archaeological, and historical evidence support a solar-output model for climate change.

Although the processes of climate change are not completely understood, an important causal candidate is variation in total solar output. Reported cycles in various climate-proxy data show a tendency to emulate a fundamental harmonic sequence of a basic solar-cycle length (11 years) multiplied by 2(N) (where N equals a positive or negative integer). A simple additive model for total solar-outpu...

Economic Collapse?: A Historical and Archaeological Perspective on the Anglo-Saxon Emporium

M view pre-conquest England, before William the Conqueror in 1066, as a period of little international trade, no economic activity, and few urban centers. However, Anglo-Saxon England did contain a remarkable degree of “urbanism” in a period dominated by rural agricultural settlements and high status portable wealth. The urban, economic sphere was centered on emporia – organized merchant commun...