Ghār-e Boof is a Paleolithic cave site in Iran well known for its rich early Upper Rostamian assemblages. The located on the edge of Dasht-e Rostam plain southern Zagros. Recent excavations by members Tübingen-Iranian Stone Age Research Project at also recovered well-stratified Middle Here, we provide first detailed luminescence chronology and site. More generally, our work Zagros Mountains reg...

Tip-dating methods are becoming popular alternatives to traditional node calibration approaches for building time-scaled phylogenetic trees, but questions remain about their application to empirical datasets. We compared the performance of the most popular methods against a dated tree of fossil Canidae derived from . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It ...

archaeological excavations on the western part of the central iranian plateau, known as the qazvin plain provides invaluable information about the sedentary communities from early occupation to the later prehistoric era. despite the past archeological data, chronological studies mostly rely on the relative use of the bayesian modeling for stratigraphically-related radiocarbon dates. the current...

The well established phenomenon 0/ seasonality 0/ birth dates (winter excess) and admission dates (summer excess) o/patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder was re-examined in a Southern A/rican study 0/ ill-patients. Monthly and seasonal analyses relpectively resulted in a May (late autumn and winter) excess o/schizophrenic male births and a March (late summer and autumn) excess among ...