Maternal genetic features of the Iron Age Tagar population from Southern Siberia (1st millennium BC)

Palaeodietary Study of Iron Age Population from Gohar Tepe (Iran)

Human and animal skeletal remains can provide information about the food chain of inhabitant’s nutrition of archaeologicalsites. The food chain which at it minerals and organic materials transferred from soil to the plants, from plants to theanimals, and from herbivores animals to the carnivores, is the benchmark system in ancient diet. Although Chemicalinteractions between soils, animal and hu...

Analysis of Molded and Coreformed Glass from 1st Millennium BC Gordion, Anatolia

We report the analysis of glass vessels recovered from 1st millennium BC contexts at the site of Gordion, the ancient capital of the Anatolian Kingdom of Phrygia (in modern day Turkey). The Phrygians (c.8 th -7 th century BC) were renowned for their metalworking skills and produced vessels in a distinctive “Phrygian” style. While no archaeological evidence has yet been found to support local gl...

Craft Specialization at Shahdad: Pottery Production during the third millennium BC

Many potteries have been discovered from excavations and a surface survey at Shahdad, but few works have beendone to examine craft specialization in pottery production at this important site. Different types of potteries, some ofwhich bearing potter marks demonstrate that craftsmen of the site had involved in manufacturing of centralized potteryproduction. A number of kilns and many waste of po...

the impact of skopos on syntactic features of the target text

the present study is an experimental case study which investigates the impacts, if any, of skopos on syntactic features of the target text. two test groups each consisting of 10 ma students translated a set of sentences selected from advertising texts in the operative and informative mode. the resulting target texts were then statistically analyzed in terms of the number of words, phrases, si...

An Archaeological Resource Assessment and Research Agenda for the Later Bronze Age and Iron Age (The First Millennium BC) in the East Midlands