Vijay Sathe
Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute, India
[ 1 ] - Gilan Iron Age Diet: Results based on chemical analysis on samples of human and animal bones
Trace element analyses was carried out using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer and XRF on a small collection of bones and teeth from horse and human bone samples to check the ratio of strontium and calcium and other elements like zinc and copper. Interestingly the copper representation in humans is much higher compared to that of Sr/Ca. This shows that their diet consisted mainly of animal me...
[ 2 ] - The Lion-Bull Motifs of Persepolis: The Zoogeographic Context.
The lion-bull iconography during the Achaemenian period of ancient Persia has generated different theories of astronomicaland seasonal events besides the suggestions that it could be the symbol of the time cycle of the day, with lion representingthe sun and bull the night. However, the present paper draws the reader’s attention to the hitherto unexplored angle ofzoology to understand physiognom...
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