Madytos kazılarında ele geçen MÖ 1. binyıl gri seramik topluluğu, Orta ve Geç Tunç Çağı öncüleri yanında farklı çağdaş kültürlerin metal işçiliğinden beslenen kuzeybatı Anadolu seramikleriyle benzerlikler taşımaktadır. Bu çalışma bu bağlamda Frigya kap ilişkili olan buluntusu seramiklerin kronolojik etkileşimsel yapısına dair bazı sorunları ortaya koymayı amaçlar. Çalışmada alınan örnekler, ser...

Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) was known throughout Eurasia in the second millennium BC in regions with warm, moist summers, where its cultivation reduced agricultural risk. Its cultivation during the warm, but dry months at Kyzyltepa and other Iron Age sites in western Central Asia was probably made possible through irrigation practices that were long known and originally developed in th...

The construction of dolmens took place in Europe from the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (fifth millennium BC–second BC) and had a rapid development along Atlantic façade, with an important focus Andalusia. Within this area, megalithic necropolises located banks Gor River (Granada, Andalusia, Spain) are studied. In paper, multivariate techniques applied characterize associated river landscape by...

a survey and analysis of the ancient iranian religion calls for a profound familiarity with the elamite religion and its gods. elamite beliefs played an important role in forming the iranian religion between the 4th millennium bc and the advent of the indo-iranians on the iranian plateau. in this paper, we examine the elamite religious background and the major gods and goddesses that were worsh...

of the many diverse arts that flourished during the third millennium bc, textiles played an especiallysignificant role in society. archaeological textiles offer an important source of material cultural testimony fordaily life in ancient times- relating simultaneously to agriculture, pastoralism, trade, migration, ritual, and soforth as well as to craft technologies. the study of the techniques ...

This article reports on 12 new accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates from the latest phases of the Chalcolithic period occupation (late 5th millennium cal BC) at Teleilat Ghassul, type site for the south Levantine Ghassulian Chalcolithic culture. The new AMS dates from Teleilat Ghassul favor an amendment to a previous suggestion (Bourke et al. 2001), that all significant occupation at the s...