In the 5th and 4th millennia BC, complex societies developed in Eastern Anatolia, Northern
(Upper) Mesopotamia, and Southern (Lower) Mesopotamia. This paper examines the …

Excavations and surveys carried out from the mid-1990s through 2009 at Tell Brak,
northeast Syria, have focused on reconstructing the socioeconomic complexity and physical …

There can be few “bigger” questions than the nature and development of human experience
and self-awareness and few better ways to study it than through the changing treatment of …

The use of human teeth for ornamental purposes is archaeologically documented from the
European Upper Palaeolithic, and, sporadically, during the subsequent Mesolithic, Neolithic …

Abstract Late Bronze Age multiple human burials from Deh Dumen, Iran, were uncovered in
the Zagros Mountains. Using cross‐sectional geometry and histology, a sample (n= 23) of …

As a result of a review of the available literature and some unpublished sources, data on
ante mortem cranial trauma have been gathered for 25 archaeological sites from …

13, Poorsina St., Qods St., Enghelab St., 141556158 Tehran, Iran 3 Department of
Archaeology, Faculty of Art, Nima University, 46311-55111 Mahmoudabad, Iran 4 …

The study of prehistoric warfare in the ancient Near East is often evoked in Near Eastern
scholarship, but remains understudied in a comprehensive or objective manner. This …

Ali Kosh on Deh Luren plain (32◦ 33′ 28′′ N, 47◦ 19′ 30′′ E) was excavated in 1961
and 1963 by an American expedition directed by Frank Hole and Kent Flannery as a part of …

Bonjar Avenue, Zabol, Iran e archaeological site of Deh Dumen (Deh-e Paeen, 31◦ 09′
03′′ N, 51◦ 06′ 14′′ E) is located south of a village with the same name in the most …