Kamyar Abdi is an Iranian archaeologist. He received his M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, at University of Chicago (1997) and his Ph.D. from University of Michigan in Anthropology (2002). He has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College since 2002. His research interests include sedentism, food production (agriculture and pastoralism), urbanism, state formation, and writing in ancient Near East, especially Iran.

Abdi is currently the editor of the Iranian journal of Archaeology and History. He is teaching at Department of Archaeological sciences at the Shahid Beheshti University

Shahid Beheshti University

Shahid Beheshti University was formerly The National University of Iran . The university's name was changed during the cultural revolution in Iranian universities, 1980-82. It is located in Evin District and extends into Velenjak District in northwestern Tehran, Iran, on a main campus of...

at Tehran.

External links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~anthro/faculty/abdi.html.