INTRUSIVE BURIALS IN ANCIENT MOUNDS

Human Burials

Taphonomic factors significantly affect the preservation of bone specimens that are ultimately available for examination by the researcher. Burial practices can disturb previous interments, as does rodent burrowing. Soil pH can greatly alter or destroy many smaller bone or bone with less density. Flooding and erosional episodes, as discussed in the last paper, can severely disturb burials. Fina...

Detection of ancient settlement mounds – Archaeological survey based on the SRTM terrain model

In the present study we demonstrate the value of the SRTM 3 arc-second terrain model for a virtual survey of archaeological sites -the detection and localization of ancient settlement mounds in the Near East. These so-called "tells" are the result of millennia of settlement activity within the period from 8000-1000 BC, and form visible landmarks of the world’s first farming and urban communitie...

Burials: Dietary Sampling Methods

Intrusive and non-intrusive watermarking

“Can we watermark without perturbing an image?” We present the salient results of the investigation carried out to find an answer to this question.

Cancer in ancient iranian medical books

In medical history of different nations, there are numerous documents concerning cancer. The present study is an investigation in ancient books to determine the part that medicine of Iran has played in the recognition of cancer. In all 31 Iranian medical and 5 Islamic medicine books mostly from 8 to 18 cent. A.D. have been examined. The findings showed that cancer in ancient medical books of Ir...