Fereidoun Biglari

Fereidoun Biglari is co-founder and head of the Paleolithic department in National Museum of Iran which established in 2001. His field of research covers Lower Paleolithic of Iran and western Asia and Middle Paleolithic of Iran in general and Zagros region (Iran and Iraq) in particular. His MA thesis presented a detailed analysis on an Acheulean assemblage discovered on a terrace site called Ganj Par in Sefidrud valley at Gilan in 2003. He is co-director of a joint archaeological project in collaboration with the laboratory “PACEA” Prehistory and Quaternary Geology Institute (CNRS-University of Bordeaux 1), Bordeaux, France in the Central Zagros and Isfahan regions. He was awarded a doctoral fellowship of the French government in 2007, and currently is a PhD candidate at University of Bordeaux 1. His main current project is establishing a specialized Paleolithic museum in Kermanshah in western Iran.He has been continuously involved in the research, survey and excavation of Paleolithic sites in Iran which resulted in many discoveries in both Zagros and the Iranian Central Plateau. He has published many papers in international journals such as Antiquity (England), Current anthropology (U.S.A.), Paleorient (France), Near Eastern Archaeology (U.S.A.), Archaologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (Germany), Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History (Iran), Iran (England), Archaeological Reports (Iran), Anthropologie (Czech Republic), and also in some edited books which published in Germany, France, Japan, Mexico, and Iran.

References

Trinkaus, E and F. Biglari (2006)Middle Paleolithic Human Remains from Bisitun Cave, Iran, "Paleorient": 32.2: 105-1

Biglari, F. and Shidrang, S. (2006)The Lower Paleolithic Occupation of Iran, "Near Eastern Archaeology" 69(3–4): 160-168

Biglari, F., (2007)The Lower and Middle Paleolithic Occupations of Iran: A Brief Review, In Iran, Fragments from Paradise”, pp.31-39, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico City

Otte, M., F. Biglari, D. Flas, S. Shidrang, N. Zwyns, M. Mashkour, R. Naderi, A. Mohaseb N. Hashemi, J. Darvish, & V. Radu (2007) The Aurignacian in the Zagros region: new research at Yafteh Cave, Lorestan, Iran, "Antiquity" 81:82-96

External links

* [http://www.pacea.u-bordeaux1.fr/Fichebiglari.htm] .