Wheat and barley are among the most important staple foods, originally exploited, cultivated
and domesticated in the Near East, in places between the Eastern shores of the …

Introduction Page 8 Rita Schlusemann, Helwi Blom, Anna Katharina Richter, and Krystyna
Wierzbicka-Trwoga Introduction Wil man och säija sin Meening och Skääl med fåå Ordh/ som …

The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern
academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early …

Tappeh Sang-e Chakhmaq is the only Neolithic site in Northeastern Iran, characterised by
aceramic and ceramic levels corresponding to an occupation of 1500 years from the eighth …

CHAPTER ONE Fig. 1.1. Map to show location of region and key Neolithic sites. Fig. 1.2.
Screen shot from IADB. Fig. 1.3. Processing of heavy residue from flotation. Fig. 1.4. Project …

The processes of Neolithization that occurred in the Zagros region have been less
understood than their counterparts from the western half of the Fertile Crescent in southwest …

The contents of a pit located in the centre of a large communal structure at Asiab in the
central Zagros mountains provides rare evidence for ritual food practices during the Early …

Over the past few decades, several excavations that have been performed in the Fars
Neolithic sites have resulted in the presentation of different chronologies for the region. Most …

Communal buildings have been reported from a number of early Neolithic sites from the
Levant and Anatolia, but none were known from the central Zagros. Here we report on the …

This chapter presents an overview of the evidence for the Holocene climate, climate change,
human adaptation and human response on the Iranian Plateau and the adjacent piedmont …