Although prehistoric periods (especially Chalcolithic) on the western side of the Central Zagros Mountain are fairly known, the Songhor and Koliyaei Plains have not been sufficiently investigated by western  or  Iranian archaeologists. In the course of the recent investigationsduring the 2002 and 2009 field seasons, thirty three chalcolithic sites, of which nine sites  contain Dalma sherds, wer...

The beginning of metallurgy in the ancient Near East attracts much attention. The southern Levant, with the rich assemblage of copper artifacts from the Nahal Mishmar cave and the unique gold rings of the Nahal Qanah cave, is regarded as a main center of early metallurgy during the second half of the 5th millennium CalBC. However, a recently discovered copper awl from a Middle Chalcolithic buri...

Hindi: "भूतकाल का अध्ययन केवल वर्तमान के माध्यम से ही किया जा सकता है । बीते हुए समय लिए वस्तुओं तथा में विद्यमान संस्करणों को भूतकाल अवशेषों रूप लेकर उनसे की घटनाओं बारे निष्कर्ष निकाला जाता है। वे तर्क जिनके आधार पर निकाले जाते हैं संबंधों अवलोकन आधारित होते हैं"।1 
 English: The excavation work done in India gives information about the stages of ancient Indian culture and various cultural region...

this paper deals with pottery assemblage from the chalcolithic phase of the site of gilund in rajsamand district ofrajasthan. though pottery from this site has been studied earlier (shinde et al 2002), however there was no literatureavailable on the ceramic chronology of gilund with layers ascertained to it. this paper tries to build up a ceramicchronology in the site in order to indentify diff...

In 2008, a well preserved and complete shoe was recovered at the base of a Chalcolithic pit in the cave of Areni-1, Armenia. Here, we discuss the chronology of this find, its archaeological context and its relevance to the study of the evolution of footwear. Two leather samples and one grass sample from the shoe were dated at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU). A third leather sampl...

Situated in the Talvar valley of the Bijar County, Tepe Gheshlagh is an archaeological site with a sequence spanning the Chalcolithic through to the Bronze Age. Two seasons of salvage excavations have covered the site as it will be submerged as part of the intended lake of the Talvar Dam. Results from the excavations show evidence of long-lasting Chalcolithic (Dalma) settlements at the site. Da...

the analysis of the role of natural factors in spatial distribution of archaeological sites, during the chalcolithic period in bostanabad, azerbaijan when it comes to the ancient settlement patterns and how to set in a region, the role of environment and its infrastructure in a geographical landscape will be highlighted. distribution of population and human settlements in a geographical area, h...

archaeological investigations on the soil of archaeological sites indicates that human settlement and residence in a particular area, may lead to enrichment of certain elements such as phosphorus, magnesium, calcium and potassium, due to the production of rubbish, waste, domestic and industrial waste and many other cases. investigation the range of elements in the soils, make it possible to ide...

Figure 2. Evolution of tooth centroid size (M2) (y-axis) through time (x-axis) for small domestic pigs (d), large pigs with domestic tooth shape (D) and large pigs with wild tooth shape (W). The schematic (shadowed) small pig of the Early Neolithic represents the small domestic pigs present in Romania at this period based on traditional metrical data (humerus, [26]) but not present in our data....

Perdigões is a large site with a set of ditched enclosures located at Reguengos de Monsaraz, Alentejo, South Portugal. Recently at the central area of this site burnt human remains were found in a pit (#16). This structure had inside human remains, animal bones (namely pig, sheep or goat, cattle, dog, deer and rabbit), shards, ivory idols and arrowheads. All have been subjected to fire and late...