Kamyar Abdi

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Kamyar Abdi

Kamyar Abdi ( listen ? / I PersianAudio file / audio sample كاميار عبدی) (born 1969 in Tabriz ) is an Iranian archaeologist .

Life

He received his MA in Middle Eastern Languages ​​and Cultures from the University of Chicago in 1997 and his PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2002 . From 2002 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College . His research interests include sedentarism, food production (agriculture and grazing), urban planning, state building, and writing in the ancient Middle East, particularly Iran.

Abdi is editor of the journal Iranische Archeologie und Geschichte . He teaches at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the Shahid Beheschti University in Tehran .

Publications

  • Kamyar Abdi: Nationalism, Politics, and the Development of Archeology in Iran . In: American Journal of Archeology 105 (2001) pp. 51-76 online
  • Kamyar Abdi: The Early Development of Pastoralism in the Central Zagros Mountains . In: Journal of World Prehistory, Vol. 17 (2003), No. 4: pp. 395-448
  • Kamyar Abdi, Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bembeck: Fars Archeology Project 2003: Excavations at Toll-e-Bashi. ( online, PDF 3.2 MB )
  • Kamyar Abdi: From Pan-Arabism to Saddam Hussein's cult of personality: Ancient Mesopotamia and Iraqi national ideology . In: Journal of Social Archeology 8 (2008) pp. 3-36

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oxford Handbook of Iranian History
  2. ^ Faculty, Fellows, and Staff 2002
personal data
SURNAME Abdi, Kamyar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES كاميار عبدی (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Tabriz