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 …

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

Abstract The Mediterranean cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) is an evergreen conifer that
belongs to the Cupressaceae, which is the first plant family whose detailed evolutionary …

Little is known about the impact of the Mediaeval Warm Period (MWP: 950–1250 CE) and
the Little Ice Age (LIA: 1250–1850 CE) on high-altitude agro-pastoral practices and the …

Located in the middle basin of the Pulvar river (Fars, Iran), Pasargadae was founded around
550 BCE in the early days of the Achaemenid Empire. Its territory is dotted with remains of …

To settle in a given area, man has to deal with the surrounding environment and the
geomorphological processes that shaped it. Landscape defines the available resources and …

Abstract The Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE) has been given relatively little attention in
research on climate-society interactions when compared to the neighboring Byzantine …

Here we present a new global compilation of modern pollen and spore data for use in
testing and evaluating palaeoclimate reconstruction methods. The resulting dataset contains …

Palaeoecology is increasingly contributing to conservation biology and restoration ecology
by extending the recent annual to decennial records of ecological observations to centennial …

Most of the archaeological research at Persepolis took place in the middle of the last
century, with little attention to environmental issues. In the period since the destruction of …