Career

Fereidoun Biglari is co-founder (with Saman Heydari and Korosh Roustaei) and head of the Paleolithic

Paleolithic

The Paleolithic Age, Era or Period, is a prehistoric period of human history distinguished by the development of the most primitive stone tools discovered , and covers roughly 99% of human technological prehistory...

 department in National Museum of Iran

National Museum of Iran

The National Museum of Iran is a museum in Tehran, Iran. It is the combination of two museums, the old Muze-ye Irân-e Bâstân , and the modernistic white travertine National Arts Museum , inaugurated in 1972...

 which established in 2001. His field of research covers Lower Paleolithic of Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 and western Asia and Middle Paleolithic

Middle Paleolithic

The Middle Paleolithic is the second subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. The term Middle Stone Age is used as an equivalent or a synonym for the Middle Paleolithic in African archeology. The Middle Paleolithic and the Middle Stone Age...

 of Iran in general and Zagros region (Iran and Iraq) in particular. His MA thesis presented a detailed analysis on an Acheulean

Acheulean

Acheulean is the name given to an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture associated with early humans during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia and Europe. Acheulean tools are typically found with Homo erectus remains...

 assemblage discovered on a terrace site called Ganj Par

Ganj Par

Ganj Par is a Lower Paleolithic site located in the Gilan province in northern Iran.Located on an old western terrace of the Sefīd-Rūd River, the site was discovered by a team of archaeologists from the Center for Paleolithic Research of the National Museum of Iran in 2002.The Lower Paleolithic...

 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

Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

, France in the Central Zagros and Isfahan regions. He was awarded a doctoral fellowship in 2007, and currently is a PhD

PHD

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 candidate at University of Bordeaux 1

University of Bordeaux 1

The University of Bordeaux 1 is a French university, in the Academy of Bordeaux. Its main campus is in Talence.It has many important laboratories such as* Centre de Neurosciences Intégratives et Cognitives , a neuroscience research center...

. He established the Zagros Paleolithic Museum

Zagros Paleolithic Museum

Zagros Paleolithic Museum is a museum in Kermanshah, Iran, established in 2008.The museum contains rich collections of stone tools and animal fossil bones from various Paleolithic sites in Iran...

 in Kermanshah

Kermanshah

Kermanshah is a city in and the capital of Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 784,602, in 198,117 families.The overwhelming majority of Kermanshahi people are Shi'a Muslims...

 in collaboration with Kermanshah provincial office of Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization in 2008. The Museum is the first established museum in Iran that devoted to 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.

Publications

He has published many papers in international journals such as Antiquity

Ancient history

Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC...

 (England), Current anthropology (U.S.A.), Paleorient

Paleorient

Paleorient is a French journal which is dedicated to the prehistory of Near East and publish in both French and English. This journal has a high rank among those studying Near Eastern prehistory....

 (France), Near Eastern Archaeology

Near Eastern archaeology

Near Eastern Archaeology is a regional branch of the wider, global discipline of Archaeology...

 (U.S.A.), Archaologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (Germany), Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History (Iran), Iran (England), Archaeological Reports (Iran), Anthropologie

Anthropologie

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 (Czech Republic), and also in some edited books which published in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, France

France

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, Japan

Japan

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, Mexico

Mexico

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, and Iran.
Most recently, he co-edited Iran Palaeolithic / Le Paléolithique d’Iran, with Marcel Otte

Marcel Otte

Marcel Otte is a professor of Prehistory at the Université de Liège, Belgium. He is a specialist in Religion, Arts, Sociobiology, and the Upper Palaeolithic times of Europe and Central Asia....

, and Jacques Jaubert

Jacques Jaubert

French prehistorian and professor of Paleolithic archaeology at University of Bordeaux 1.- Academic career:He obtained his MA and PhD at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne...

, which published in BAR series (S1968) in 2009. Papers published in this volume are from the session Iran Palaeolithic presented at the XV UISPP World Congress, September 2006.

Selected papers

• 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
• 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.

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.

External links

• http://www.pacea.u-bordeaux1.fr/Fichebiglari.html. Bordeaux 1 webpage
• http://u-bordeaux1.academia.edu/FereidounBiglari/Papers. Academia edu webpage
• http://sites.google.com/site/fbiglari/publication Free access pdf publications