Fascioliasis is a plant-and waterborne zoonotic parasitic disease caused by two trematode
species:(i) Fasciola hepatica in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania and (ii) F …

Archaeological and archaeogenetic evidence points to the Pontic–Caspian steppe zone
between the Caucasus and the Black Sea as the crucible from which the earliest steppe …

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 …

Nearly 20 y ago, Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood reviewed the evidence for the
associated spread of farming and large language families by the demographic expansions …

Occupied between~ 10,300 and 9300 years ago, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Aşıklı
Höyük in Central Anatolia went through early phases of sheep domestication. Analysis of …

The Middle to Late Holocene spread of agropastoralism throughout Eurasia not only
subjected domesticated taxa to stressors associated with novel environments but also …

Highlights•The earliest domesticated cattle and caprines in GQ region were raised about
4000 cal BP.•The early pastoralism in the GQ region expanded during the period of the …

Geometric morphometrics can effectively distinguish isolated third lower molars of present-
day sheep and goat, but its applicability to archaeological specimens has yet to be …

Sheep was one of the first domesticated animals in Neolithic West Eurasia. The
zooarchaeological record suggests that domestication first took place in Southwest Asia …

Hunting strategies in the Paleolithic period represent a significant and complex challenge,
influencing the lifestyles of early human populations dependent on the seasonal activity of …