This 12 months, to mark each Girls’s Historical past Month and Worldwide Girls’s Day we’re highlighting the unbelievable contribution of girls to the archaeology of Iran, from the earliest horizons of humanity by way of the Islamic interval. Be taught extra about a few of the extraordinary feminine contributors to New Voices in Iranian Archaeology (Oxbow Books, 2024), whose analysis pursuits, work, and achievements communicate for themselves.
By Megan Cifarelli and the Script Books Group | 4 min learn
Elham Ghasidian
Elham Ghasidian earned her PhD in Palaeolithic Archaeology from the Eberhard Karls College of Tübingen, Germany (2010) and accomplished a post-doctoral fellowship on the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Research, College of Cambridge, UK. She is a senior researcher on the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany. Her foremost analysis pursuits revolve round human evolution and hominin cultural variety, specializing in the event of ecological and cultural behaviour within the Iranian Plateau and neighbouring areas throughout the late Pleistocene. She has participated in additional than 30 archaeological expeditions as group member and head. Since 2018, she has served because the supervisor of the analysis mission ‘Southern Caspian Hall: a biogeographical hominin dispersal route’ within the Neanderthal Museum.
Dr. Ghasidian is the lead creator of ‘The Southern Caspian Hall: A hominin biogeographical growth route’ in New Voices in Iranian Archaeology.
Zohreh Shirazi
Zohreh Shirazi obtained her PhD in environmental archaeology from the College of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, in 2012. Her foremost space of specialization is archaeobotany. She has labored on archaeobotanical collections in Iran coming from completely different chronological contexts starting from the Palaeolithic to the Islamic intervals. She has participated in archaeological fieldwork in southeastern Iran together with Shahr-i Sokhta, Tepe Sadegh, Tepe Taleb Khan, Tepe Yalda, Konar Sandal, and Tepe Gav Koshi. Shirazi is the creator of a number of scientific peer-reviewed articles and is at the moment the founding director of the archaeobotanical laboratory of the Southeastern Regional Museum of Iran at Zahedan and World Heritage Base of Shahr-i Sokhta.
Dr. Shirazi contributed to the chapter ‘Identification of plant stays discovered on the underground channels of Persepolis’ in New Voices in Iranian Archaeology.
Zohreh Zehbari
Zohreh Zehbari is an Iranian archaeologist at the moment serving as a post-doctoral researcher at Philipps-Universität Marburg. She earned her PhD from the College of Tehran in 2019 and has carried out intensive analysis on ceramics and artwork throughout varied historic intervals, with a specific give attention to the Achaemenid and Sasanian eras.
Dr. Zehbari is the lead creator of ‘Dehqāed: A lesser-known Sasanian middle within the Borāzjān Plain,Southern Iran’ in New Voices in Iranian Archaeology.
Marjan Mashkour
Marjan Mashkour is an archaeozoologist and bioarchaeologist specializing in southwest Asian mammalian and hen stays. Her work is focused on the Iranian Plateau and adjoining areas. By a diachronic strategy to the subsistence economies, she is curious about a greater characterization of the sedentary and non-sedentary societies previously. She leads a number of tasks for the characterization of herding methods utilizing biogeochemistry and isotopic analyses, in addition to morphometric analyses, whereas collaborating with geneticists. Since 2002 she has skilled a number of archaeozoologists in Iran and France, nearly all of them ladies. She co-directed for six years the Archaeozoology and Archaeobotany Analysis Group (AASPE) lately modified to BioArch, on the CNRS and the Pure Historical past Museum of Paris.
Dr. Mashkour is among the authors of ‘Iran–China joint archaeological excavations at Tepe Naderi, Shirvan, Northern Khorasan: Preliminary report of the 2016 and 2018 season’ in New Voices in Iranian Archaeology.
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