Research on Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer diet has focused the consumption of animals. Evidence for use plant foods is comparatively limited but rapidly expanding. The authors present an analysis carbonised macro-remains processed plants from Franchthi Cave in Aegean Basin and Shanidar north-west Zagros Mountains. Microscopic examination charred food remains reveals pounded pulses as a common in...

The Gurpi Formation, one of the geologycal units of the Zagros Basin, stretches with in the Folded Zagros in the provinces of Khuzestan, Lorestan, and Fars,in southwest Iran. In all 525 samples were collected from five stratigraphic sectiones of the Gurpi Formation in Dezful embayment Zone for studying biostratigraphy. Totally 47 species from 23 Planktonic foraminifera genera were recognized in...

earthquakes are a particular concern because of the serious hazard they present. the existence of seismicity patterns such as the foreshock and aftershock clusters, doughnut pattern, seismic quiescence etc show that the earthquake occurrence in the active tectonic regions is not random and clustering phenomena are obvious characteristics of these events in space and time. fractal analysis, as a...