an examination of historical text and archaeological data show that mehrjanqadhaq was one of the important states of western iran which had been founded and formed in a region now known as darreshsher or more exactly in saimara valley. the history of the state goes back to parthian era. archaeological data in confirmation of historical texts both indicate settlement sequence form parthian era t...

In this work, we develop a generic agent-based model (ABM) for simulating ancient societies. Agents in our model are completely autonomous, in contrast to most existing ABMs used in archaeology. We employ this model to evaluate the impact of different social organization paradigms and agricultural strategies on population viability and evolving spatial distribution of settlement locations, at a...

based on the historical data, marhashi has been one of the eventful regions of iran during the second and third millennium b. c. it has been also one of the important confederates of ancient elam during the most of its life time. the mesopotamia texts cited to its name beside the name of ancient elam. the goal of this research is to determine the position of marhashi region through study and ex...

A “3D photo-logging system,” a new method for recording archaeological sites, was developed. The prototype system consists of several servers running on a single machine and logging units composed of a camera phone equipped with a motion sensor attached to the mobile phone and a GPS sensor, and a notebook PC for logging the position and orientation of the camera phone. Using the 3D photo-loggin...

In the Near East, nomadic hunter-gatherer societies became sedentary farmers for the first time during the transition into the Neolithic. Sedentary life presented a risk of isolation for Neolithic groups. As fluid intergroup interactions are crucial for the sharing of information, resources and genes, Neolithic villages developed a network of contacts. In this paper we study obsidian exchange b...