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Characteristics of direct human impacts on the rivers Karun and Dez in lowland south-west Iran and their interactions with earth surface movements [PDF]

, 2015
Two of the primary external factors influencing the variability of major river systems, over river reach scales, are human activities and tectonics.
Frostick, Lynne E., Heyvaert, Vanessa M. A., Heyvaert, Vanessa M.A., Parsons, Daniel R., Walstra, Jan, Woodbridge, Karl, Woodbridge, Kevin P.   +6 more
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The Middle Eastern Biodiversity Network: Generating and sharing knowledge for ecosystem management and conservation [PDF]

, 2009
Despite prevailing arid conditions, the diversity of terrestrial and freshwater biota in the Middle East is amazingly high and marine biodiversity is among the highest on Earth.
Al-Jumaily, Masaa, Bariche, Michel, Khalaf, Maroof, Krupp, Friedhelm, Malek, Masoumeh, Streit, Bruno   +5 more
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The influence of religious and cosmological beliefs on the solar architecture of the ancient world [PDF]

, 2014
In the earliest civilizations of the Ancient World, sun worship developed in parallel with an understanding of the movement of the stars. That was the origin of an architecture that expressed a number of religious and cosmological beliefs.
Fumadó Alsina, Joan Lluís, Usón Guardiola, Ezequiel, Vives Rego, José   +2 more
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The Natufian Culture and the Origin of the Neolithic in the Levant [PDF]

, 2014
Anthropolog
Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Valla, F.
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Fire, climate and the origins of agriculture: micro-charcoal records of biomass burning during the Last Glacial Interglacial Transition in Southwest Asia [PDF]

, 2010
This study investigates changes in climate, vegetation, wildfire and human activity in Southwest Asia during the transition to Neolithic agriculture between ca. 16 and ca. 9 ka.
Alperson-Afil, Asouti, Asouti, Baird, Baird, Bar-Matthews, Bar-Yosef, Bar-Yosef, Barker, Baruch, Baruch, Ben-Gai, Berglund, Blumler, Bottema, Byrd, Cappers, Cappers, Carcaillet, Clark, Colledge, Conedera, Djamali, Emery-Barbier, England, Faegri, Firestone, Grove, Hillman, Hillman, Horowitz, Jones, Keeley, Kershaw, Kuzucuoğlu, Leng, Lewis, Litt, Meadows, Moore, Moore, Naveh, Naveh, Parr, Patterson, Power, Punt, Reille, Roberts, Roberts, Roberts, Roberts, Robinson, Rosen, Rosen, Rossignol-Strick, Stiller, Turner, Turner, Tutin, Türkeş, Valla, van Andel, van Bentham, van Geel, van Geel, van Zeist, van Zeist, van Zeist, Vannière, Wasylikowa, Wick, Willcox, Willis, Woldring, Woldring, Wright, Yasuda, Zeder, Zohary, Zohary   +80 more
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An overview of Mesopotamian bronze metallurgy during the 3rd millennium BC [PDF]

, 2005
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ADAMS, F, Adriaens, Mieke, DE RYCK, I
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Fluvial stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments in the Pasinler Basin, eastern Turkey [PDF]

, 2005
Valley floor sediments from the Pasinler Basin, eastern Turkey, provide evidence for Pleistocene and Holocene floodplain conditions. Three terrace surfaces are present.
Bayraktutan, MS, Collins, PEF, Rust, DJ
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Domestication as innovation : the entanglement of techniques, technology and chance in the domestication of cereal crops [PDF]

, 2010
The origins of agriculture involved pathways of domestication in which human behaviours and plant genetic adaptations were entangled. These changes resulted in consequences that were unintended at the start of the process.
Allaby R., Bogaard A., Chris Stevens, Colledge S., Colledge S., Currat M., Dorian Q Fuller, Doust A N., Elbaum R., Fisher R A., Fuller D Q, Fuller D. Q, Fuller D. Q., Harlan J R., Harris D R., Harris D R., Helbaek H., Hillman G C., Hodder I., Horiuchi T., Jones M K., Kobayashi H., Kobayashi H., Lee R B., Moore A., Piperno D R., Robin G. Allaby, Sahlins M., Smith B D., Stevens C J., Vavilov N., Willcox G., Zohary D.   +32 more
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O ziarnie, kościach i załamaniu osadniczym nad Haburem [PDF]

, 2018
A hypothesis on the total collapse of the settlement in Northern Syria at the end of the third millennium BC, put forward in 1993 by Harvey Weiss and his team, is one of the most disputed issues in the protohistoric archaeology of North Mesopotamia ...
Koliński, Rafał
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Carbon stable isotope analysis of cereal remains as a way to reconstruct water availability: preliminary results [PDF]

, 2011
Reconstructing past water availability, both as rainfall and irrigation, is important to answer questions about the way society reacts to climate and its changes and the role of irrigation in the development of social complexity.
AM Rosen, B Finlayson, BD Marino, C Grigson, C Körner, C Körner, C Migowski, DH Price, DW McCreery, E Galili, E Jenkins, E Kaptijn, E Peltenburg, Emma Jenkins, F Braemer, FB Salisbury, G Fiorentino, G Fiorentino, G Jones, G Palumbo, G Philip, G Rollefson, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GK Gillmore, GR Stewart, Gundula Müldner, H Helbaek, H Weiss, HR Stokes, I Kuijt, J Codron, J Doorenbos, J Hoefs, J Mabry, J Mabry, J Sealy, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JN Postgate, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Oleson, JR Ehleringer, JW Laundré, K Bastert, K Prag, KT Hubick, KW Butzer, L Cabrera-Bosquet, LT Tieszen, M Aguilera, M Charles, M Davies, M Harrower, M Madella, M Staubwasser, MH O’Leary, MW Ertsen, N Roberts, NK Fageria, P Monneveux, P Wright, Pascal Flohr, PB deMenocal, PG Whitehead, PMMG Akkermans, R Matthews, R Shaheen, RB Austin, RC Hunt, RS Wenke, RTJ Cappers, S Fujii, S Fujii, S Helms, S Mithen, S Riehl, S Riehl, SJ Bourke, SW Helms, TE Dawson, TE Levy, THE Heaton, THE Heaton, TW Boutton, TW Boutton, U Bellwald, VL Scarborough, Y Garfinkel   +97 more
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