The biological and cultural evolution of hominins in Asia is a central topic of
paleoanthropology. Yet, the Paleolithic archaeology of key regions of Asia, including the …

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 …

Fossil and archaeological evidence indicates that hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia
occurred throughout the Pleistocene, including the expansion of Homo sapiens populations …

Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological, skeletal and environment
evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific documents the migration of humans into Asia, and …

The Caspian Sea has been a highly dynamic environment throughout the Quaternary and
witnessed major oscillations in lake level, which were associated with changes in salinity …

The northern edge of the Iranian Central Desert has provided valuable evidence of terminal
Pleistocene human settlements. Mirak constitutes one of the largest open-air lithic scatters in …

Bayesian inference has been applied extensively to chronologies in archaeological science
since it provides several advantages over the (classic) frequentist approach. One of the most …

Today archaeologists are increasingly seeking more objective methods for analyzing
archaeological remains to obtain the most reliable results possible. To achieve this goal …

This study investigates the feasibility of using potential field (magnetic and gravity) data for
geophysical exploration of sodium sulfate (salt-cake) resources; more specifically glauberite …

Abstract Until recently, the Iranian Central Plateau (ICP) was considered to have been
unoccupied at the end of the Pleistocene (Marshall 2012 in 'Missing Links: Demic Diffusion …