Yousef Majidzadeh (, born 1938) is an Iranian archaeologist and director of the excavations at Ozbaki, Qabristan and

Jiroft Jiroft (; ) is a city in the Central District of Jiroft County, Kerman province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is south of the city of Kerman, and south of Tehran along Road 91. In the past it was also ...

. He is a native of

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. In 2007, Majidzadeh presented a seminar in

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entitled “Jiroft, the Cradle of Oriental Civilization”. During the lecture, he said: "The history of civilization in Jiroft dates back to 2700 BCE and the third-millennium civilization is the missing link of the chain of civilization which archaeologists have long sought."Jiroft is lost link of the chain of civilization: Majidzadeh
January 12, 2007, ''Mehr News'', accessed December 1, 2012 He also stated "We do not deny the Mesopotamian civilization, but we believe that the

Jiroft culture The Jiroft culture,Oscar White MuscarellaJiroft(2008), in: Encyclopedia Iranica. "For archeological accuracy the terms "Jiroft" or "Jiroft culture" employed to define a specific ancient Iranian culture and its artifacts should only be cited withi ...

is of equal importance to the

Mesopotamian Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq and forms the eastern geographic boundary o ...

. The only difference is that the Mesopotamian civilization had cultural continuity while the Jiroft civilization suffered from ups and downs for natural reasons. Thus it emerged in a certain period and was buried at a later time." He retired from

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after

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and now lives in

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Selected bibliography

* Majidzadeh, Y. 1977. Excavation in Tepe Qabrestan: The First Two Seasons 1970 and 1971. Marlik 2:45-61. * Majidzadeh, Y. 1982. Lapis lazuli and the Great Khorasan road. Paléorient, 8/1: 59-69 * Alizadeh, Abbas, Y. Majidzadeh, and S. Malek Shahmirzadi, eds. 1999 The Iranian World: Essays on Iranian Art and Archaeology presented to Ezat O. Negahban. Tehran, Iran, University Press. * Madjidzadeh,Y.,2003 Jiroft: The Earliest Oriental Civilization, Tehran, * Madjidzadeh,Y.,2003 “La découverte de Jiroft,” Dossiers d’Archeologie, no. 287, pp. 19–26

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Majidzadeh, Yusef 1936 births Living people Archaeology of Iran Iranian archaeologists People from Tabriz Jiroft culture