This research focuses on reconstructing migration and dietary strategies of individuals in the Iron Age. Elemental analyses from archaeological skeletal remains yield an important perspective on temporal shifts in diet in relation to social and environmental circumstances. The elemental ratio data such as dietary and environmental changes have shed light on crucial issues in archaeology. The ce...

Among the objects excavated in 1978 at site of Tillya Tepe (Northern Afghanistan) by Soviet-Afghan archaeological expedition led Victor I. Sarianidi, twin golden clasps from Burial III attract special and instant attention any military historian or a researcher ancient arms armour. The identity personage(-s) on has quite rarely been studied. Scholars are usually satisfied with generic term “war...

to determine ancient seed species, 3250-3450 year-old charred seeds obtained from different iranian archaeological sites were studied using scanning electron microscopy (sem) and molecular analysis. sem analysis of ancient seeds revealed that the surface of the seeds was damaged. therefore, we could not accurately identify their species. molecular analysis on ancient specimens was done on diffe...

background: this study aimed to evaluate the pollution levels of surface water with heavy metals including pb, cd and cr in gheshlagh river, western iran. methods: water and sediment were sampled in five monitoring stations with three replicates in time along the river. the concentration of cr, pb and cd in both water and sediment samples were measured with graphite furnace atomic absorption sp...

introduction the alborz structural zone in northern iran is the host of a number of important coal deposits. the gheshlagh coal mine is one of them, which is located 35 km southeast of azadshahr. coal bearing strata in the gheshlagh mining district occur in the middle part of the lower jurassic shemshak formation which consists mainly of shales, siltstones and sandstones. the geshlagh coals hav...