during field work in western regions of the iranian plateau in the zagros mountains in september 2010, a single specimen belonging to the genus and subgenus eremias fitzinger, 1834 was collected from the protected area of bijar (at about 1619 m elevation) in north of the city of bijar, kurdistan province, western iran (47°, 34’ e; 36°, 00’ n).

We discuss a figured pin from Shahdad, previously well known but published with a partial and unsatisfactory drawing.  More detailed observations and a new, more realistic recording of this important artifact reconsider its stylistic and iconographic links with the imagery of the Halil Rud civilization and the eastern Iranian Plateau in general, and, at its opposite cultural poles, with Mesopot...

Twelve proto-Elamite tablets and fragments were found during the 2006-07 excavation at Tape Sofalin in the northernCentral Iranian Plateau. The form and content of these tablets is entirely consistent with that of the standard and late proto-Elamite tablets from Susa, except TSF 11, which we date to the Susa II/GodinV Period. Although all of the inscribedobjects from Tape Sofalin published here...

This paper investigates the architecture of Dezzak Grand Mosque in Saravan City for first time to best our knowledge. One most important research problems was lack sufficient information about Mosque. Considering that some Islamic geographers had sporadically mentioned an old mosque southeast Iran, comprehensive field not done this regard. study compares oldest South East Iran with Prophet Mohm...

the present study introduces, for the first time, the black tail tip three-toed jerboa from the east of the iranian plateau. this new species is different from its sympatric species, jaculus blanfordi, considering the clear black color of the hairs of its tail tip and the two large styles on the glans of the penis.

geographical concept of “haft karšvar” could be traced back to the proto-indo-iranian period. after the separation of indians and iranians, due to geographical circumstances and religio-political changes, original indo-iranian narrative of seven part of the earth, turned into its current versions. a comparison of old iranian and indian texts, specially avesta and vīspā̊ŋhō  purāṇa, shows that in...

the house mouse (mus musculus) is a polytypic species, with its geographic distribution largely the result of human migrations during the late glacial and holocene. this study used geometric morphometry (gm) on upper and lower molars to discriminate among the three subspecies of the house mouse present in iran. moreover cranial remains of this species were uncovered on several archaeological si...

Abstract A record-breaking heat wave hit the Yangtze River valley during boreal summer of 2022, and caused severe social economic losses. One prominent feature this long-lived event was its persistence abnormal intensification in August. This study investigated physical mechanisms be responsible for late under background a La Niña event. The prolonged directly related to westward extension west...