Center for Paleolithic Research,
National Museum of Iran, 30 Tir St.
Emam Ave. P.O.Box 11365/4364,
Tehran; IRAN
E-mail: fbiglari@gmail.com
f.biglari@ipgq.u-bordeaux1.fr
Present position:
Head of Centre for Paleolithic Research, National Museum of Iran
Education
In progress PhD candidate, Institute of Prehistory and Quaternary Geology,
University of Bordeaux 1, France
Dissertation title: Qaleh Bozi: A Middle Paleolithic Industry with
Bifacial Tools from Central Iran. click here
2006 M.A, archaeology, Azad University, Tehran Central Branch, Iran.
Thesis title: The Lower Paleolithic Assemblage of Ganj Par
2003 B.A, Archaeology, Azad University, Abhar Branch, Abhar, Iran.
Research Interests:
The Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Iran and Western Asia; lithic technology
Publications:
Biglari, F., and K. Abdi (1999)
Paleolithic Artifacts from Cham-e Souran, the Islamabad Plain, Central Western Zagros Mountains, Iran. Archaologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 31: 1-8 pdf
Biglari, F., and G. Nokandeh and S. Heydari (2000)
A Recent find of a Possible Lower Paleolithic Assemblage from the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains. Antiquity 74: 749-750 pdf
Biglari, F. and K. Taheri (2000)
The Discovery of Upper Paleolithic Remains at Mar Kuliyan and Mar Dalan Cave, Rawansar. In Essays on the Archaeology, Geology, Geography, and Culture of Rawansar Area. Edited by Kamal Taheri. Pp. 7-27. Kermanshah: Taq-e Bostan Publications (In Farsi).
Biglari, F. (2001)
Recent Finds of Paleolithic Period from Bisotun, Central Western Zagros Mountains. Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History 28:50-60. (In Farsi, with an English abstract.) pdf
Biglari, F., and H. Abdi (2001)
The Khalvasht Rock-shelter: A Probable Late Paleolithic Site at Amarlou,The Gilan Province. Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History 29-30:68-72. (In Farsi, with an English abstract) pdf
Biglari, F., and S. Heydari (2001)
Do-Ashkaft: A Recently Discovered Mousterian Cave Site in the Kermanshah Plain, Iran. Antiquity 75: 487-488.pdf
Roustaei, K, F.Biglari, S.Heydari and H.Vahdati (2002)
Recent Research on the Palealithic of Lurestan, West Central Iran. Antiquity 76:19-20 pdf
Biglari, F., and H. Abdi (2003)
Discovery of Two Probable Late Paleolithic Sites at Amarlou, The Gilan Province, Caspian Basin, In T. Ohtsu, J.Nokandeh, and K. Yamauchi (eds), Preliminary Peport of the Iran-Japan Joint Archaeological Expedition to Gilan, First Season, 2001, ICHO, Tehran, and MECC, Tokyo. pdf
Biglari, F. (2004)
The Preliminary Survey of Paleolithic Sites in the Kashan region., In S.M. Shahmirzadi (ed.), The Silversmiths of Sialk (Sialk Reconsideration Project), Report No. 2: 151-168. Archaeological Research Center. Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization,Tehran. (In Farsi)
Biglari, F. (2004)
The Discovery of the First Evidence of Middle Paleolithic Occupation at Nargeh in the Qazvin Plain in the Northwest Central Plateau of Iran, Archaeological Reports 2:165-169, Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, Tehran. (In Farsi, with an English abstract). pdf
Biglari, F. (2004)
The Preliminary Observations on Middle Paleolithic Raw Material Procurement and Usage in the Kermanshah Plain, the Case of Do-Ashkaft Cave. In T. Stollner, R. Slotta, and A. Vatandoust (eds), Persian Antiques Splendor, mining crafts and archeology in ancient Iran, vol. I, Pp. 130-138, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum pdf
Biglari, F, and R. Ghafari (2004)
The Preliminary Report on the Discovery of Middle Paleolithic Artifacts near Maragheh, Southeast of the Lake Urmieh. In M. Azarnoush (ed), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Iranian Archaeology; Northwestern Region, Pp. 17-26, Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, ICHTO. Tehran. (In Farsi) pdf
Biglari, F, S. Heydari, and S. Shidrang (2004)
The Lower Paleolithic site of Ganj Par in the Gilan Province, Iran, a preliminary report. In T. Ohtsu, J. Nokandeh, and K. Yamauchi (eds), Preliminary Peport of the Iran-Japan Joint Archaeological Expedition to Gilan,Third Season, 2002, Pp. 76-84, ICHTO, Tehran, and MECC, Tokyo.
Biglari, F, S. Heydari, and S. Shidrang (2004)
Ganj Par: The first evidence for Lower Paleolithic occupation in the Southern Caspian Basin, Iran, Antiquity: Vol 78, No 302, Project Gallery pdf
Roustaei, K., H. Vahdati Nasab, F. Biglari, S. Heydari, G. A.Clark, and J. M. Lindly (2004)
Recent Paleolithic Surveys in Luristan, Current Anthropology, Vol.45, No.5, Pp.692-707 pdf
Otte, M, and F. Biglari (2004)
Temoins aurignacian dans le Zagros, Iran, Anthropologie 42/3: 243-247 pdf
Otte, M., F. Biglari, S. Alipour, R. Naderi, J. Hosseini, (2004).
Earliest Human Occupations in Central Asia: an Iranian Look in Archaeology and paleothnography of Eurasia, Essays in honor of Vadim Ranov, Novosibirsk, p.279-282.
Jaubert, J.,F. Biglari, J-G. Bordes, L. Bruxelles, V. Mourre, S. Shidrang, R. Naderi and S. Alipour (2006)
New Research on Paleolithic of Iran: Preliminary Report of 2004 Iranian-French Joint Mission, Archaeological Reports 4, pp. 17-26, Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, Tehran. (In English, with an Farsi abstract) pdf
Hashemi, N., J. Darvish, M. Mashkour, F. Biglari (2006)
Rodents and Lagomorphs remains from late Pleistocene and early Holocene Caves
and Rochshelter sites in the Zagros region, Iran, Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, Vol. 2, No. 1: 25-33 pdf
Trinkaus, E and F. Biglari (2006)
Middle Paleolithic Human Remains from Bisitun Cave, Iran, Paleorient: 32.2: 105- 1 pdf
Biglari, F. and Shidrang, S. (2006)
The Lower Paleolithic Occupation of Iran, Near Eastern Archaeology 69(3–4): 160-168
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 pdf
Biglari, F., (2007)
Introduction, in A. Tsuneki and M. Nishida (eds), Stone tools from Arsanjan area,Fars province,
Iran, pp. 2-4, Tsukuba University
Biglari, F., (2007)
Approvisionnement et utilisation des matières premières au Paléolithique moyen dans la plaine de Kermanshah (Iran) : le cas de la Grotte Do-Ashkaft, M. H. Moncel, A. Moigne, M. Arzarello, C. Peretto (eds), Aires 'approvisionnement en matières premières et aires d'approvisionnement en ressources alimentaires Approche intégrée des comportements, Workshop 23, XV Congrès UISPP, Lisbonne, Vol. 5, BAR International Series 1725 pdf
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 pdf
Trinkaus E, F. Biglari, M. Mashkour, H. Monchot, J-L. Reyss, H. Rougier, S. Heydari,K. Abdi.
(2007)
Late Pleistocene Human Remains from Wezmeh Cave, Western Iran. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Mashkour, M., H. Monchot, E. Trinkaus, J-L. Reyss, F. Biglari, S. Bailon, S. Heydari, K. Abdi (submitted)
Carnivores and their prey in the Wezmeh Cave (Kermanshah, Iran): A Late Pleistocene refuge in the Zagros, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
Symposium Organized:
Iran Paleolithic. XVth Congress of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (U.I.S.P.P.), Lisbon, Portugal. 2006. Organized with M. Otte, And J. Jaubert pdf
Conference Presentations :
2004 Preliminary Report on the Discovery of Middle Paleolithic Artifacts near Maragheh, Southeast of
the Lake Urmieh. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Iranian Archaeology;
Northwestern Region, Urmia, Iran. (Lead author with Reza Ghafari)
2005 Ganj Par: New Evidence for Distribution of the Acheulian into Iran. The 2005 Annual
ASOR Meetings, Philadelphia, Penn, U. S. A. pdf
2005 Sefid-Ab: New Evidence of Upper Paleolithic Occupation at the Iranian Central Plateau.
The 2005 Annual ASOR Meetings, Philadelphia, Penn, U. S. A. (junior author with
S. Shidrang)
2006 Test Excavations at the Middle Paleolithic Sites of Qaleh Bozi, Southwest of Central Iran,
XV Congress of the UISPP, Lisbon, Portugal. (senior author with M. Javeri, M. Mashkour,
M. Yazdi, R. Naderi, S. Shidrang, F. Bahrol’olumi, M. Tengberg, J. Darvish, N. Hashemi)
2006 The Middle Palaeolithic occupation of Mar-Tarik, a new Zagros Mousterian site in Bisotun
massif (Kermanshah, Iran)., XV Congress of the UISPP, Lisbon, Portugal. (junior author
with J. Jaubert, .J. Bordes, L. Bruxelles, V. Mourre, S. Shidrang, and R. Naderi)
2006 Mousterian Workshops and raw material sources in the west-central Zagros, The Case
of Gakia and Amar Merdeg, Paper presented at the International Symposium on Iranian
Archaeology; Western Region, Kermanshah, Iran.
2007 Qaleh Bozi: A Middle Paleolithic Industry with Bifacial Tools from Central Iran, Paper presented
at the 2007 annual Paleoanthropology Society Meetings, Philadelphia, Penn, U. S. A. (senior author
with Sonia Shidrang, Mohsen Javeri, Mehdi Yazdi) pdf
2007 The Acheulian culture in Iran, with special reference to Ganj Par, Paper presented at the International
seminar " Les cultures a bifaces du Pléistocène inférieur et moyen dans le monde.Emergence du
sens de l'harmonic", Tautavel, France