The mound known as Cayönü Tepesi (38 degrees 16' N; 39 degrees 43' E) in southeastern Turkey is one of the increasing number of early village sites which, since World War II, have been excavated archeologically in greater southwestern Asia. The evidence recovered in the autumn 1972 campaign of the Joint Istanbul-Chicago Prehistoric Project is briefly described, with particular attention to Cayö...

Glis glis (Linnaeus, 1766) is a glirid commonly called the fat or edible dormouse. It is the largest dormouse and the only species in the genus Glis. Range mainly overlaps with a deciduous and mixed forest zone in Europe and southwestern Asia. Principal habitat is deciduous and mixed woodland and the species is strictly nocturnal. G. glis is unusual among small rodents in its long life expectan...

A new geoemydid turtle, Ocadia tanegashimensis (Testudines: Geoemydidae) is described on the basis of a relatively well-preserved shell from the lower middle Miocene of Tanegashima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. This species is clearly distinguished from two congeneric species (extant O. sinensis and O. nipponica from the middle Pleistocene of eastern Japan) due to the presen...

Scrub typhus is endemic in regions of eastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific (Korea to Australia) and from Japan to India and Pakistan. It is estimated that there are about one million cases of this disease each year (Vas and Gupta, 2006). This illness is caused by Orientia (formerly Rickettsia). Orientia tsutsugamushi, an obligate intracellular Gram negative bacterium, which was first isola...

The monotypic genus Pibrocha Kirkaldy, 1902, known only from Sri Lanka in the Oriental region, is closely related to Dorysarthrus Puton, 1895 from southwestern Asia and northern Africa (Palaearctic region). The genusis revised to include a first description of the male genital structures and a discussion of relationships between Pibrocha, Dorysarthrus and Dichoptera Spinola, 1839. A diagnostic ...

While a recent molecular phylogeographical study shows that, Cladrastis, small woody genus in the bean family (Leguminosae), may have been established Asia after middle to late Eocene, fossils of not previously documented Paleogene Asia. Here we report an infructescence and four fossil fruits Cladrastis from southeastern Yunnan, China, which described as new species, C. haominiae, this represen...

Cleome pallida is the name to be used for Dipterygium glaucum, widespread in desert habitats of northeastern Africa and southwestern Asia, when this species treated as a Cleome. A comprehensive synonymy provided all names are typified. The record Bunias orientalis made by Forsskål Yemen shown based on misidentified material C. pallida. new combination cornus-africani endemic Somalia that was fi...

according to zooarchaeological evidence, central zagros as a center of domestication experienced independently the first step of livestock domestications. it seems that capra hircus have been domesticated about 10,500 b.c in central zagros and since then, has played a key role in the food economy of this region. outstanding development of genetics shed new lights on the origins of goat and dome...