Fereidoun Biglari

Fereidoun Biglari is an Iranian prehistorians and co-founder ( with Saman Heydari and Korosh Roustaei ) and head of the Paleolithic Department, founded in 2001, Iran's National Museum.

His area of ​​research generally includes the Lower Palaeolithic of western Asia and Iran and the Iranian Middle Palaeolithic, and specially the Zagros region (Iran and Iraq). His master's thesis presented a detailed analysis on a group Acheulean, which was discovered in 2003 on a rocky terrace called Ganj Par in Sefidrud Valley (Province of Gilan ). He is co -director of the joint archaeological project in collaboration with the laboratory Pacea (Institute of Prehistory and Quaternary Geology of the CNRS - University of Bordeaux) in the central region of Zagros and Isfahan. Biglari, in 2007, a doctoral fellowship from the French Government and is currently PhD candidate at the University of Bordeaux I. His current project is the construction of the Stone Age Museum Zagros in Kermanshah in western Iran.

Biglari was continuously involved in the research, investigation and excavation of Paleolithic sites in Iran, which led to many discoveries in the Zagros and the Iranian central plateau. He has numerous publications in international journals like Antiquity (England), Current Anthropology (USA), Paléorient (France), Near Eastern Archaeology (USA), Archaeological releases from Iran and Turan ( Germany ), Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History (Iran), Iran (England), Archaeological reports (Iran), anthropology (Czech Republic), as well as book chapters in Germany, France, Japan, Mexico, and Iran. Most recently, he was co-editor of Iran Palaeolithic / Le Paléolithique d' Iran ( with Marcel Otte and Jacques Jaubert, 2009). Works from this volume are 2006, during the session "Iranian Paleolithic " at the XV. UISPP World Congress been presented.