Soviet archaeological sites threatened by developers

Parasite remains in archaeological sites.

Organic remains can be found in many different environments. They are the most significant source for paleoparasitological studies as well as for other paleoecological reconstruction. Preserved paleoparasitological remains are found from the driest to the moistest conditions. They help us to understand past and present diseases and therefore contribute to understanding the evolution of present ...

Earliest evidence of pollution by heavy metals in archaeological sites

Homo species were exposed to a new biogeochemical environment when they began to occupy caves. Here we report the first evidence of palaeopollution through geochemical analyses of heavy metals in four renowned archaeological caves of the Iberian Peninsula spanning the last million years of human evolution. Heavy metal contents reached high values due to natural (guano deposition) and anthropoge...

Human Activity Recognition in Archaeological Sites by Hidden Markov Models

The problem of automatic recognition of human activities is among the most important and challenging open areas of research in Computer Vision. This paper presents a methodology to automatically recognize the human activities embedded in video sequences acquired in outdoor environments by a single large view camera. The recognition process is performed in two steps: first of all the body postur...

archaeological analysis of sassanid sites in khomein

khomein city is located between the iranian central plateau and central zagros. the relative importance of khomein in sassanian period is evidenced by presence of distinctive monuments such as fire temple of atashkooh and mile malyon in eastern part of mahallat and inscriptions of gharghab valley and also passing of a branch of silk road through it. nevertheless there is not so much information...

Conservation technologies for archaeological sites and artifacts