Mitarbeiterin Elham Ghasidian

Name: Dr. Elham Ghasidian
Abteilung: Wissenschaft
Funktion: Projektleitung Südkaspischer Korridor
Telefon: +49 2104 9797-76
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Vita
Geboren 1979. Seit 2019 Wissenschaftliche Direktorin des Projektes „Südkaspischer Korridor: eine biogeographische Ausbreitungsroute der Homininen“.

1996-1999 Studium der Persischen Literatur, Iran (B.A.). 2000-2004 Studium der Englischen Literatur, Pädagogische Hochschule Kharazmi, Universität Teheran, Iran. 2001-2004 Wiss. Mitarbeiterin im “Centre for Palaeolithic Research, National Museum of Iran”. 1999-2004 Qualifizierte englische Fachlehrerin in Gymnasien im Iran. 2004-2010 Promotion in Tübingen über das Jungpaläolithikum im Iran. 2013-2014 Postdoc am Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität Tübingen 2015 Wiss. Mitarbeiterin am DAI (Deutsche Archäologische Institut) Berlin 2016-2018 Postdoc am „Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge“.

Schriftenverzeichnis

Info: *In Persisch verfasste Publikationen

Bücher

*Palaeolithic of Iran 1, archaeological reports monographs. Edited by Saman Heydari-Guran, Ruhollah Shirazi and Elham Ghasidian. The Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), 2021.

Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation at the Ghār-e Boof Cave, a reconstruction of cultural traditions in Southern Zagros Mountains of Iran. Elham Ghasidian. Kerns Verlag, Tübingen, 2014.

Papers

Southern Caspian Corridor: a hominin biogeographical expansion route. Elham Ghasidian, Hosein Ramzanpour, Ahmad Bavand Savadkouhi, Mehdi Abedini Araghi and Saman Heydari-Guran. Near Eastern Archaeology (in press).

Modelling Neanderthals' dispersal routes from Caucasus towards east. Elham Ghasidian, Anooshe Kafash, Martin Kehl, Masoud Yousefi, Saman Heydari-Guran. Plos One (in press).

The discovery of an in situ Neanderthal remain in the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, West-Central Zagros Mountains, Kermanshah. Saman Heydari-Guran, Stephano Benazzi, Sahra Talamo, Elham Ghasidian, Nemat Hariri, Georgo Oxilia, Samran Asiabani, Faramarz Azizi, Rahmat Naderi, Reza Safaierad, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Robert Foley and Marta Mirazon Lahr. PloS One, (2021) 16(8), p.e0253708

Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation at Gelimgoush cave, Kermanshah; West-Central Zagros mountains of Iran. Saman Heydari-Guran, Katherina Douka, Thomas Higham, Susanne C. Münzel, Katleen Deckers, Shaghayegh Hourshid, Rahmat Naderi, Samran Asiabani, and Elham Ghasidian. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 38, (2021) p.103050.

*Consistency of the "MIS 5 humid corridor model" for the dispersal of early Homo sapiens into the Iranian PlateauSaman Heydari-Guran and Elham Ghasidian. Palaeolithic of Iran 1, archaeological reports monographs. Edited by Saman Heydari-Guran, Ruhollah Shirazi and Elham Ghasidian. The Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), (2021).

*Reconstructing the Middle Palaeolithic settlement patterns and distribution in Kermanshah Region using ecological niche models. Masoud Yousefi, Elham Ghasidian and Saman Heydari‑GuranPalaeolithic of Iran 1, archaeological reports monographs. Edited by Saman Heydari-Guran, Ruhollah Shirazi and Elham Ghasidian. The Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), (2021).

*Southern Caspian Corridor: a biogeographical hominin expansion route. Elham Ghasidian. Palaeolithic of Iran 1, archaeological reports monographs. Edited by Saman Heydari-Guran, Ruhollah Shirazi and Elham Ghasidian. The Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), (2021).

Consistency of the "MIS 5 humid corridor model" for the dispersal of early Homo sapiens into the Iranian Plateau. Saman Heydari-Guran and Elham Ghasidian. Pearls, Politics and Pistachios; Essays in Anthropology and Memories on the Occasion of Susan Pollock’s 65th Birthday. The editorial collective. Archaeologie im Iran und Touran (2021).

*Kiyasar 1 Rockshelter: in search of the early hominin settlements in Mazandaran. Elham Ghasidian, Hossein Ramzanpour, Masoomeh Moradian and Saman Heydari-Guran. The quarterly Journal of History and Archaeology of Mazandaran 1 (3) (2021).

New Evidence of a Late Pleistocene Occupation on the Southern Slopes of the Alborz Mountains. Hamid Hariryan, Saman Heydari-Guran, Abbas Motarjem and Elham Ghasidian. Lithic Technology (2021). DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2020.1860350.

Species distribution models advance our knowledge of the Neanderthals’ paleoecology on the Iranian Plateau. Masoud Yousefi, Saman Heydari-Guran, Anoushe Kafash and Elham Ghasidian. Scientific reports, 10(1) (2020), 1-9.

Late Pleistocene hominin settlement patterns and population dynamics in the Zagros Mountains: Kermanshah region. Saman Heydari-Guran and Elham Ghasidian. Archaeological Research in Asia 21. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2019.100161 .

Rethinking of the Upper Palaeolithic of the Zagros Mountains. Elham Ghasidian. Journal of PaleoAnhropology (2019): 240-310.

Diversity of culture among the Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers on the Iranian Plateau. Elham Ghasidian, Saman Heydari-Guran and Marta Mirazon Lahr. Journal of Human Evolution Vol. 132 (2019): 101-118.

Excavations at Ghār-e Boof in the Fars Province of Iran and its bearing on models for the evolution of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Zagros Mountains. Elham Ghasidian, Knut Bretzke and Nicholas J. Conard. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Vol 47 (2017): 33–49.

The MUP Zagros Project: tracking the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Kermanshah region, west-central Zagros, Iran. Saman Heydari-Guran and Elham Ghasidian. Antiquity 91 (355) (2017) project gallery.

Bücher (Kapitel)

*Upper Palaeolithic diversity in the Iranian Plateau. Elham Ghasidian, Saman Heydari-Guran and Marta Mirazon Lahr. In Y. Moradi ed. Afarin Nameh: essays on the archaeology of Iran in honour of Mehdi Rahbar. Research Institute and Cultural Heritage and Tourism (2019): 29-46.

Upper Palaeolithic Raw Material Economy in the Southern Zagros Mountains of Iran. Elham Ghasidian and Saman Heydari-Guran. In H. Nishiaki, T. Akazawa and A. Aoki eds. Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans Volume 2. Springer (2018): 157-174.

The Rostamian cultural group and the taxonomy of the Iranian Upper Palaeolithic. Nicholas J. Conard and Elham Ghasidian. In N.J. Conard, P. Drechsler and A. Morales eds. Between sand and sea, the archaeology and human ecology of South-western Asia. Kerns Verlag. Tübingen, Germany. (2011): pp. 33-52.

Middle Palaeolithic settlement on the Iranian Central Plateau. Saman Heydari-Guran, Elham Ghasidian and Nicholas J. Conard. In N.J. Conard and A. Delagnes eds. Settlement Dynamics of the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle Stone Age, Volume IV. Kerns Verlag. Tübingen, Germany (2015): pp. 171-203.

*The emergence of modern human, the Upper Palaeolithic revolution and the Iranian Plateau. Elham Ghasidian. In S. Aryamanesh ed. Arj-e Varjavand, papers in honour of Dr. P. Varjavand. Publication house company, Tehran, Iran (2015): pp. 101-120.

The Palaeolithic of Iran. Nicholas J. Conard, Elham Ghasidian and Saman Heydari-Guran. In Daniel T. Potts ed. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran. New York: Oxford University Press (2013): pp. 29-48.

*The Rostamian tradition and the Upper Palaeolithic of the Zagros Mountains. Elham Ghasidian. In Y. Hasanzadeh and S. Miri eds. Eighty years of Iranian archaeology. Publisher: Nashr-e Pazineh and National Museum of Iran. Tehran, Iran (2012): pp. 129-141.

*The Upper Palaeolithic of Iran and its place among the South-western Asia. Elham Ghasidian. In H. Fahimi and K. Alizadeh eds. Namvarnameh, papers in honour of Masoud Azarnoush. Publisher: Nashr-e Iran Negar. Tehran, Iran (2012): pp. 59-78.

Palaeolithic survey in Arisman region; western Central Iranian Plateau. Saman Heydari-Guran and Elham Ghasidian. In A. Vatandoust, H. Parzinger and B. Helwing eds. Early mining and metallurgy on the Western Central Iranian Plateau. Archäologie in Iran und Touran Band 9, Verlag Philip von Zebern. Mainz, Germany (2011): pp. 484-498.

Development of a geospatial database with WebGIS function for the Palaeolithic of the Iranian Plateau. Saman Heydari-Guran, Elham Ghasidian, Michael Märker and Nicholas J. Conard. In J-M Le Tensorer, R. Jagher and M. Otte eds. The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in the Middle East and neighboring regions. Université de Liège, ERAUL (2011): 126.

Chipped Stone Artefacts. Elham Ghasidian, Ahmad Azadi and Susan Pollock. In S. Pollock, R. Bernbeck and K. Abdi eds. The 2003 excavations at Tol-e Baši, Iran; Social life in a Neolithic village. Archäologie in Iran und Turan Band 10. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung; Germany (2010): pp.163-174.

Late Palaeolithic Blade Production in the Basht Region of the Southwestern Zagros, Iran. Elham Ghasidian, Ahmad Azadi, Saman Heydari and Nicholas J. Conard. In M. Otte, F. Biglari and J. Jaubert eds. Iran Palaeolithic / Le Paléolithique d’Iran. BAR International series (2009): pp. 125-140.

The Open-Air Epipalaeolithic site of Bardia and Palaeolithic Occupation of the Qaléh Gusheh Sand Dunes, Esfahan Province, Iran. Nicholas J. Conard, Elham Ghasidian and Saman Heydari. In M. Otte, F. Biglari and J. Jaubert eds. Iran Palaeolithic / Le Paléolithique d’Iran. BAR International series (2009): pp. 141-154.

Palaeolithic Sites on Travertine and Tufa Formations in Iran. Saman Heydari, Elham Ghasidian and Nicholas J. Conard. In M. Otte, F. Biglari and J. Jaubert eds. Iran Palaeolithic / Le Paléolithique d’Iran. BAR International series (2009): pp. 109-124.

The 2006 Season of the Tübingen-Iranian Stone Age Research Project in the Provinces of Fars and Markazi,, Nicholas J. Conard, Elham Ghasidian, Saman Heydari, Rahmat Naderi and Mohsen Zeidee. In: 9th Annual report of Archaeological Organisation, H. Fazeli (ed.), ICAR, Tehran, Iran (2007): pp. 43-67.

Report on the 2005 Survey of the Tübingen-Iranian Stone Age Research Project in the Provinces of Esfahan, Fars and Kohgiluyeh-Boyerahmad. Nicholas J. Conard, Elham Ghasidian, Saman Heydari, Mohsen Zeidee. In M. Azarnoush ed. Archaeological Reports V. ICAR, Tehran; Iran (2006): pp. 9-34.

A preliminary report on the stone artefacts of Arg-e Dasht C. Elham Ghasidian.  In O. Tadahiko, J. Nokandeh and Y. Kazuya eds. Preliminary Report of the Iran Japan Joint Archaeological expedition to Gilan, Fourth Season. Iranian Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization, Tehran and Middle Eastern Culture Centre in Japan, Tokyo (2005): pp. 57-60.

*Geoarchaeological research in Takht-e Soleyman, travertine context according to new archaeological findings of the late Pleistocene. Saman Heydari and Elham Ghasidian. In M. Azarnoush ed. Second congress of Archaeology of North-West; Urmia. ICAR, Tehran, Iran (2004): pp. 27-44.

*A Preliminary Microwear study of the lithic assemblage in Tappeh Sialk. Elham Ghasidian. In S. Malek Shahmirzadi ed. Pottery makers of Sialk. ICHO. Tehran, Iran (2004): pp. 189-193.

*The Technology of Blade Production at Komishan Cave; Surface collection. Elham Ghasidian. In M. Azarnoush ed. Archaeological Reports II. ICAR, Tehran, Iran (2003): pp. 35-38.

*Middle Chalcolithic open-air site of Ban-Asiab: A lithic Production Site in the Mahidasht Region. Reinhard Bernbeck, Elham Ghasidian, Saman Heydari, and Susan Pollock. In M. Azarnoush ed. Archaeological Reports II. ICAR, Tehran, Iran (2003): pp. 54-68.

*Lithic Industry of Tappeh Sialk: second season. Elham Ghasidian. In S. Malek Shahmirzadi ed. The Silversmiths of Sialk, Report no. 2. ICHO. Tehran, Iran (2003): pp. 235-246.

*Lithic Industry of the site of Shurabeh. Elham Ghasidian. In S. Malek Shahmirzadi ed. The Silversmiths of Sialk, Report no. 2. ICHO. Tehran, Iran (2003): pp. 247-252.