Staff - 1st / 2nd phase of research

Dr. Marjan Mashkour

Archaeozoologist

My main research interest is to investigate the acquisition and production systems in the prehistory. For my PhD I have worked in the Iranian central Plateau with a diachronic approach to subsistence economies from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Part of my work aims at evidencing cultural and economic links between the Iranian central Plateau and the southern parts of Iran with central Asia. Also pastoralism and specially mobile pastoralism and long distance seasonal movements interest me particularly. Iran is my main field work but I do occasionally work also in adjacent countries on specific questions in order to investigate regional issues such as those developed in the SFB project. I have also been trained in biochemistry and I use this tool, for the understanding of the mobility of human societies in the past.

Selected Publicatiosn:

with E. Vila: Archaeometrical Methods for Tracking Ancient Bedouins. A Pilot Project in Northern Mesopotamia from IVth to Ist Millennia B.C. In: Mitteilungen des SFB "Differenz und Integration" 4/1 (2003), 1–20.

Biochemistry for Tracing the Ancient "Nomads". An Isotopic Research on the Origins of Vertical Transhumance in the Zagros Region. In: Nomadic People. Im Druck.

with K. Abdi: Archaeozoology and the Question of Nomadic Camp-sites. The Case of Tuwah Khoshkeh (Kermanshah, Iran). In: H. Buitenhuis/A.M. Choyke/M.Mashkour/A. H. Al Shyab (ed.): Archaeozoology of the Near East V. Groningen 2002 (ARC Publications 62), 211–227.

with M. Fontugne/C. Hatté: Investigations on the Evolution of Subsistence Economy in the Qazvin Plain (Iran) from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. In: Antiquity 73 (1999), 65–76.

Chasse et élevage au Nord du Plateau central iranien entre le Néolithique et l'âge du Fer. In: Paléorient 28 (2002), 27–42.

Chasse et élevage du Néolithique à l'Âge du Fer dans la plaine de Qazvin (Iran). Etude archéozoologique des sites de Zagheh, Qabrestan et Sagzabad. Diss. Université de Paris I–Sorbonne 2001.

with H. Buitenhuis/A. Choyke/Poplin F. (ed.): Archaeozoology of the Near East IV. 2 Bde. Groningen 2000 (ARC Publication 32).

with J.-D. Vigne (Coord.): Les débuts de l'élevage au Proche-Orient. In: Paléorient 25 (1999).