Bronze Age Trade Routes between Iran & Mesopotamia
Where did the black diorite and gabbro stone that ancient Mesopotamian statues come from? They aren’t found in Iraq and …
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#IranElection … This Is It. The Big One.
In regards to my previous post from yesterday, I’d like to quickly share this quote I’ve found from Clay Shirky, …
The Revolution Will Be Twittered
I remember taking an ethnography class as an undergrad about the social, cultural, and political revolutions that happened in the …
The Mitochondrial & Y-Chromosome Variation Of The Talysh From Iran & Azerbaijan
Ivan Nasidze and Mark Stoneking, along with a half dozen or so other colleagues, have studied the mitochondrial and Y-chromosome …
New Results On The Domestication Of Barley In Iran & Cattle In Turkey
Two papers have come out this week that refine our understanding of the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic Near East. …
Genetic Relationships of Semitic and Indo-Iranian speaking groups in Iran
If you don’t know already, I’m of Iranian decent. I was born in Tehran, but because of persistent socio-political instability …
Rice Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture
A new Nature study will report on the earliest known evidence of rice paddies in China. We’re talking almost 8,000 …
