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Kamyar Abdi
September 2005
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Dr. Kamyar Abdi received his BA in Archaeology from Tehran University (1992) and his MA from the University of Chicago in Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations (1997). He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in Anthropology (2002).
He has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College since 2002. His research interests focus on the social and economic developments in the intervening era from the beginning of sedentary life and food production in the Early Neolithic period (c. 8000 BC) to the rise of early political formations in the Late Chalcolithic period (c. 3500 BC). The organisation and operation of imperial formations from the 3rd millennium BC to the rise of Islam in the 7th century AD and the nature and mechanism of interaction between people of different ethnic backgrounds in the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC).
Dr Abdi has done field work in Iran, Turkey, and the USA. As part of the Fars Archaeology Project, a long-term, regional programme to explore the development of early societies in southern Zagros, he recently resumed excavations at the site of Malyan (ancient Anshan), the highland capital of Elam.
His publications include:
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Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud: Essays on Iranian Archaeology in Honour of William M Sumner co-edited with Naomi F Miller (2003), |
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'Capitals of the Achaemenid Empire' in Capitals of Iran: Ancient and Modern M Y Kiani (ed) (1996), |
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'Bes in the Achaemenid Empire' in Ars Orientalis (1999), 'Nationalism, Politics, and the Development of Archaeology in Iran' in American Journal of Archaeology (2001), 'Malyan 1999' in Iran (2001), |
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'Notes on Iranianization of Bes in the Achaemenid Empire' in Ars Orientalis (2002), |
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'The Early Development of Pastoralism in the Central Zagros Mountains' in Journal of World Prehistory (2003) |
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'The Daiva Inscription Revisited' in International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies (2005). |
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"History is the Light on the Path to Future" |
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Encyclopaedia Iranica
The British Institute of Persian Studies "Persepolis Reconstructed"
The British Museum
The Royal Asiatic Society
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