nature has great importance on prehistoric human life and attention to the environment and discovering mysteries of life which influence their life, always have been considered as concerns of prehistoric people. the elements such as water, wind and earth for primary human were important elements because of no awareness of environment in primary stages of sedentary life. human beings always trie...

INtrODUctION The science of Archaeology has been in existence for a long time and the way an archaeological excavation is conducted hasn't changed much. However, the way archaeological data is recorded has changed dramatically by the progress of technology and the widespread use of computers. Nowadays, almost any archaeological excavation uses databases to record not only the objects which have...

Archaeologists, in most cases, neglect animal bones and teeth, which present common material on archaeological sites. Analysis of archaeozoological material from Vucedol (Baden culture) and prehistoric cave site Vela spila on Korcula, has been applied to stress the importance of that material (especially single animal teeth) in archaeozoological samples. It is obvious that a higher percentage o...

n field archaeology, analysis of an excavated region is a meticulous process requiring exploration at a variety of levels. While the act of excavation offers the best way for archaeologists to monitor close-range details, they can use empirically based analysis to analyze only the findings to which they themselves have been exposed. With a team of people excavating, synthesizing the wealth of o...

This paper describes work undertaken by the VERA project to investigate how archaeologists work with information technology (IT) on excavation sites. We used a diary study to research the usual patterns of behaviour of archaeologists digging the Silchester Roman town site during the summer of 2007. Although recording had previously been undertaken using pen and paper, during the 2007 season a p...

a collection of 100 pieces of painted potteries related to the time period from the fourth to the first millenniums b.c. has been studied in this research. these valuable pieces have been obtained through the excavation of tappegiyan and godin tappe, located in south west of iran. this region including zagros heights and its downhill places have fertile soil, plenty of water sources and are pro...

according to the geographical and environmental situation, the kur river basin have been occupied from the middle paleolithic to the modern times. of the ancient cultures of the region, the 3rd millennium b.c cultures contemporary with proto-elemite and the elemite dynasties have less known. despite to the importance of this span of time, there is not clear understanding on the transition from ...