For a long time, finds of the Linear Band Pottery culture (LBK) on Southern Buh numbered only two bowls from Buh-Dnister site Bazkiv Ostriv. After recent discovery few more vessels and four stationary LBK settlements, some scholars have assumed Neolithic incomers regularly inhabited most region. However new direct AMS dates pottery shown existence indigenous hunter-gatherers here 5300 to 5000 B...

the northwest iran comprises parts of two major biodiversity hotspots; irano-anatoli and caucasus. it is a mountainous transition realm between caucasus forest in the north, pontic forest of turkey in the west and central deserts of iranian plateau. this study was designed to determine rodent diversity in northwest iran. moreover, corridor and barrier features of the region were investigated, a...