The Kura-Araxes cultural tradition existed in the highlands of the South Caucasus from 3500 to 2450 BCE (before the Christian era). This tradition represented an adaptive regime and a symbolically encoded common identity spread over a broad area of patchy mountain environments. By 3000 BCE, groups bearing this identity had migrated southwest across a wide area from the Taurus Mountains down int...

Abstract. In the Late Devonian to earliest Mississippian, Svalbard was affected by a short-lived episode of deformation named Svalbardian Orogeny. This event resulted in intense folding and thrusting sedimentary successions. Deformation stopped prior deposition Carboniferous Permian strata Billefjorden Gipsdalen groups, which lie unconformably over folded strata. Later on, presumed structures w...

The oblique collision between the northeastern margin of Arabian platform and Iranian microcontinent has led to transpressional deformation in Zagros orogenic belt central part Alpine–Himalayan belt. Although previous articles have emphasized dextral sense shear belt, this paper, using several indicators kinematic upon field checking microscopic thin-section studies, evidence development a sini...

Between 2012 and 2019, the surveys conducted by French archaeological mission of Soulaimanih Governorate in Rania Peshadar plains Iraqi Kurdistan, previously devoid Paleolithic records, have yielded numerous lithic assemblages from open-air sites, caves rock-shelters. We present here six three districts surveyed, Rania, Peshdar Dukan. Despite absence chronostratigraphic contexts still fragmenta...