Research on Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer diet has focused the consumption of animals. Evidence for use plant foods is comparatively limited but rapidly expanding. The authors present an analysis carbonised macro-remains processed plants from Franchthi Cave in Aegean Basin and Shanidar north-west Zagros Mountains. Microscopic examination charred food remains reveals pounded pulses as a common in...

Bai Hassan Formation is exposed as remnants of beds from previous formations due to severe erosion that were removed. Results grain size analysis revealed most the studied sediments coarse-grained ranging coarse sand gravel. The study shows are poorly sorted. values skewed coefficients ranged fine strongly skewed, and negative indicate occurrence hard changes in environment. Meanwhile, kurtosis...

Within Iran, the Zagros Mountains show high biodiversity, with a wealth of endemic species. One these is geometrid moth Somatina wiltshirei Prout, 1938, originally described from Iran and Iraq. In present study, one mitochondrial up to nine protein-coding nuclear gene regions were used along comparative morphological examination investigate systematic position this The results support reclassif...

a review of the known iranian species of the genus asaccus is presented. the genus asaccus is divided into two distinct geographical lineages. the nominotypical group is endemic to the mesopotamian region (western iran, eastern iraq, turkey and syria), and includes asaccus elisae, a. griseonatus, a. kermanshahensis, a. kurdistanensis, a. nasrullahi and a. saffinae, all restricted to the zagros ...

A common deviation from typical subduction models occurs when thrust sheets of oceanic crust and upper-mantle rocks are emplaced over more buoyant continental lithosphere. The archetypal example ophiolite obduction is the Semail in United Arab Emirates (UAE)-Oman orogenic belt, formed obducted onto Arabian margin during Late Cretaceous. Strait Hormuz syntaxis, northern extent UAE-Oman mountains...