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Fereidoun Biglari

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Paleolithic archaeologist, Head of Paleolithic Department and Deputy for Cultural Affairs, National Museum of Iran.

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Open Access: Landscape affordances, GIS, and the hunting landscape of rock art in the Central Iranian Plateau www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

11.11.2025 11:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Download the Persian version of "The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire " here: irannationalmuseum.ir/fa/product/%...

09.11.2025 12:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Village Life at Prehistoric Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan
Edited by Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck & Ilia Heit | 2025, www.sidestone.com/books/villag...

07.11.2025 07:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unpacking the Neolithic: Assessing the Relevance of the Neolithic Construct in Light of Recent Research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

04.11.2025 04:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Significant New Acheulean Assemblage Found in Southern Iran
www.tehrantimes.com/news/519635/...

27.10.2025 16:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Iran-China relations through the ages: interview with National Museum director All Content by Mehr News Agency is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Iran-China relations through the ages: interview with National Museum director www.tehrantimes.com/news/519448/...

24.10.2025 12:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#imwd

22.10.2025 07:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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www.tehrantimes.com/news/519021/...

12.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Narrators of Ancient Iran’ on view at National Museum. www.tehrantimes.com/news/518737/...

05.10.2025 17:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please see the appendix in The Proto-Neolithic Cemetery in Shanidar Cave
Ralph S. Solecki, Rose L. Solecki, Anagnostis P. Agelarakis

30.09.2025 19:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Actually, the Shanidar malachite bead is from a Proto-Neolithic burial, not the Late Upper Paleolithic.

30.09.2025 04:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Photographs from the 1965 Tokyo University Iran Archaeological Expedition to Taq-i-Bustan in western Iran.
Explore the database here: [https://umdb.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/DKoukoga/TAQ_1965_photo/database/photolist.php?-skip=0]

26.09.2025 08:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Met Museum’s tiny clay figurine reveals ancient origins of the mighty Hyrcanian tiger. www.tehrantimes.com/news/518132/...

21.09.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Ghamari_cave #Neanderthal #zagros

18.09.2025 18:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New evidence for Pleistocene hominin presence in the north-east Arabian Desert, Iraq
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

13.09.2025 11:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From the heart of ancient Lorestan: a masterpiece revealed beneath the full moon, to the eternal sound of Sorna and Dohol. www.instagram.com/stories/fere...

09.09.2025 20:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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www.tehrantimes.com/news/517507/...

03.09.2025 14:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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6,000-year-old fishing village reveals ancient maritime diet and fishing technology in Iran’s Makran TEHRAN - Archaeologists working at the Koupal site in Dashtyari county, southeast Iran, have uncovered remarkable evidence of a 6,000-year-old fishing settlement, providing detailed insights into anci...

6,000-year-old fishing village reveals ancient maritime diet and fishing technology in Iran’s Makran. www.tehrantimes.com/news/517025/...

20.08.2025 15:38 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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National Museum of Iran celebrates UNESCO inscription of Khorramabad Valley Prehistoric Sites TEHRAN – A ceremony marking the UNESCO World Heritage inscription of the Prehistoric Sites of Khorramabad Valley took place on Tuesday at the National Museum of Iran.

www.tehrantimes.com/news/516571/...

09.08.2025 09:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Iranian paleontologist unveils world’s first fossilized bird mating dance in Miocene strata TEHRAN - In a groundbreaking paleontological discovery, Iranian scientist Dr. Nasrollah Abbassi, researcher at the University of Zanjan, has uncovered the world’s first fossilized evidence of an ancie...

www.tehrantimes.com/news/516042/...

26.07.2025 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sad news for the world of archaeology: Brian Fagan, father of public archaeology, passed away The world of archaeology has lost one of its most influential figures: Brian Fagan, often hailed as the father of public archaeology, has passed away.

www.tehrantimes.com/news/515740/...

18.07.2025 13:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sad news for the world of archaeology: #BrianFagan, often hailed as the father of public archaeology, has passed away. For over five decades, he bridged the gap between academia and the general public, making complex archaeological concepts accessible and engaging through his writing.

18.07.2025 09:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Caves of Connection—60,000 Years of Human Stories in Iran’s Zagros
YouTube video by Kambiz Kamrani Caves of Connection—60,000 Years of Human Stories in Iran’s Zagros

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16.07.2025 05:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Echoes of the past: gold rhyton in the form of a winged lion TEHRAN - Drinking vessels of varied designs flourished throughout the Near East from the 1st millennium BCE well into the Islamic era.

www.tehrantimes.com/news/515603/...

14.07.2025 19:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Big news from Paris!

The Khorramabad Valley Prehistoric Sites have just been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List — Iran’s first Paleolithic WH site! As an archaeologist involved in this nomination, I’m proud to see decades of work recognized.

11.07.2025 18:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sang-e Chakhmaq's 8,000-year-old flute featured in museum's new video project TEHRAN - The National Museum of Iran, in collaboration with the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, has begun producing a series of short videos ...

www.tehrantimes.com/news/514120/...

11.06.2025 06:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Open Access Volume: "Tracing Transitions and Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia" honours Roger Matthews. www.academia.edu/129794989/Gl...

09.06.2025 06:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
داستان یک کشف بزرگ و شگفت انگیز...جام افسانه زندگی مارلیک
YouTube video by Amin Karimi داستان یک کشف بزرگ و شگفت انگیز...جام افسانه زندگی مارلیک

youtu.be/om6toR8m10A?...

07.06.2025 15:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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