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Fereidoun Biglari ( fa, فریدون بیگلری) () is an Iranian archaeologist and a
museum curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...
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Career

Fereidoun Biglari is co-founder and head of the Paleolithic department in
National Museum of Iran The National Museum of Iran ( fa, موزهٔ ملی ایران ) is located in Tehran, Iran. It is an institution formed of two complexes; the Museum of Ancient Iran and the Museum of Islamic Archaeology and Art of Iran, which were opened in 1937 ...
which established in 2001. He is serving as a member of the research council of the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR). He also editor-in-chief of "Journal of Iranian Archaeolog
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since its establishment in 2010. The journal is a scholarly journal about ancient Iran and neighboring regions. Since 1993, he have been directing archaeological field projects in various parts of Iran. His field of research covers Lower Paleolithic of
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
and western Asia and Middle Paleolithic of Iran in general and
Zagros The Zagros Mountains ( ar, جبال زاغروس, translit=Jibal Zaghrus; fa, کوه‌های زاگرس, Kuh hā-ye Zāgros; ku, چیاکانی زاگرۆس, translit=Çiyakani Zagros; Turkish: ''Zagros Dağları''; Luri: ''Kuh hā-ye Zāgr ...
region (Iran and Iraq) in particular. 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 Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefect ...
, France in the Central Zagros and Isfahan regions. He was awarded a doctoral fellowship in 2007, and currently is a PhD candidate at
University of Bordeaux 1 The University of Bordeaux 1 (french: Université Bordeaux-I) was one of the four universities in the Academy of Bordeaux, together with the Bordeaux Segalen University (Bordeaux 2), Michel de Montaigne University (Bordeaux 3) and Montesquieu ...
. He established the Zagros Paleolithic Museum in
Kermanshah Kermanshah ( fa, کرمانشاه, Kermânšâh ), also known as Kermashan (; romanized: Kirmaşan), is the capital of Kermanshah Province, located from Tehran in the western part of Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population is 946,68 ...
in collaboration with
Kermanshah Kermanshah ( fa, کرمانشاه, Kermânšâh ), also known as Kermashan (; romanized: Kirmaşan), is the capital of Kermanshah Province, located from Tehran in the western part of Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population is 946,68 ...
provincial office of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization in 2008. The Museum is the first established museum in Iran devoted to the Paleolithic period of Iran. He has been continuously involved in the research, surveys, and excavations of Paleolithic sites in Iran which resulted in many discoveries in both Zagros and the Iranian Central Plateau. His most recent project was
Darian Dam Archaeological Salvage Program Darian Dam was constructed on the Sirwan River between 2009 and 2015. The Dam is located in the Hawrāmān region of Kurdistan and Kermanshah. The Darian Dam Archeological Salvage Program (DDASP) was planned by Iranian Center for Archaeological Rese ...
, planned by the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research before flooding the Darian Dam reservoir in the Hawrāmān region of
Kurdistan Kurdistan ( ku, کوردستان ,Kurdistan ; lit. "land of the Kurds") or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages ...
and
Kermanshah Kermanshah ( fa, کرمانشاه, Kermânšâh ), also known as Kermashan (; romanized: Kirmaşan), is the capital of Kermanshah Province, located from Tehran in the western part of Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population is 946,68 ...
, Iran. Under his direction, four teams excavated 16 archaeological sites, of which four date back to Middle Paleolithic,
Upper Paleolithic The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of the Holocene), according to some theories coin ...
, and Epipaleolithic periods. He is active in presenting paleolithic archaeology to the public through different media such as newspapers, magazines, exhibitions, Instagram, and TV Telecast.https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454639/National-Museum-of-Iran-launches-guided-virtual-tours-on-early Guided virtual tours on early human in Iran


Selected publications


Books

*Otte,M., F. Biglari, and J. Jaubert (eds),2009, ''Iran Palaeolithic'', Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP, Lisbonne, Vol. 28, BAR International Series 1968. *Biglari, Fereidoun and Kamyar Abdi (eds), 2014, ''Evidence for Two Hundred Thousand Years of Human-Animal Bond in the Land of Iran'', edited by Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Evidence for Two Hundred Thousand Years of Human-Animal Bond in the Land of Iran", National Museum of Iran, August–September, Tehran *Biglari, Fereidoun, Jebrael Nokandeh, Abdolmajid Naderi Beni and Ali Hozhabri (eds), 2020, ''Human and the Sea: A Review of Thousands of Years of Relationship between Humans and the Sea in Iran'', National Museum of Iran and Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran, Tehran


Articles

*Trinkaus, E and F. Biglari,2006, Middle Paleolithic Human Remains from Bisitun Cave, Iran, ''Paléorient'': 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 *Biglari F, M. Javeri, M. Mashkour, Y. Yazdi, S. Shidrang, M. Tengberg, and K. Taheri and J. Darvish,2009,Test excavations at the Middle Paleolithic sites of Qaleh Bozi, Southwest of Central Iran, A preliminary report, In: M. Otte, F. Biglari, and J. Jaubert (eds), ''Iran Palaeolithic''. pp. 29–38, Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP, Lisbonne, Vol. 28, BAR International Series 1968. *Biglari, F. and V. Jahani, 2011, The Pleistocene Human Settlement in Gilan, Southwest Caspian Sea: Recent Research, ''Eurasian Prehistory'', 8 (1–2): 3–28. *Biglari, F. 2012,The Development of the Paleolithic Archaeology in Iran; a Review, in Eighty years of Iranian Archaeology, Edited by Yousef Hassanzadeh, pp. 7–48, Pazineh Publication, National Museum of Iran and Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, Tehran *Biglari, F., and S. Shidrang 2016, New Evidence of Paleolithic Occupation in the Western Zagros foothills, in The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions, Edited by Konstantinos Kopanias and John MacGinnis, pp. 29–38, Archaeopress. *Biglari, F and S. Shidrang 2019, Rescuing the Paleolithic Heritage of Hawraman, Kurdistan, Iranian Zagros, Near Eastern Archaeology 82 (4): 226-235.https://doi.org/10.1086/706536. *Zanolli, Clément, Fereidoun Biglari, Marjan Mashkour, Kamyar Abdi, Herve Monchot, Karyne Debue, Arnaud Mazurier, Priscilla Bayle, Mona Le Luyer, Hélène Rougier, Erik Trinkaus, Roberto Macchiarelli. 2019, Neanderthal from the Central Western Zagros, Iran. Structural reassessment of the Wezmeh 1 maxillary premolar. Journal of Human Evolution, Vol: 135.


References



Azarnoush, M. and B. Helwing, 2005, Recent Archaeological Research in Iran - Prehistory to Iron Age. ''Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan'', vol. 37:189-246.

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External links



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