AKbar Abedi
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   Assistance Professor in Archaeometry and Archaeology            
                         Department: Archaeology and Archaeometry            
                    Office Room Number: 220 Central Pardis Building            


AKBAR ABEDI
Assistance Professor
Tabriz Islamic Art University
Department of Archaeometry
 
Address:    Tabriz Islamic Art University
                  Department of Archaeometry
                  Hakim Nizami Ganjavi Sq.
                  Tabriz 51647-36931
                  IRAN
 
 
E-mail: akbar.abedi@ut.ac.ir
            akbarabede@gmail.com           

 

BIRTHPLACE/DATE

 
Jolfa, Tabriz, Iran; December 16, 1986     

Education
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2011-2014 Graduate Student in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran (PhD Dissertation: The Process of Transition from Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age and the Expansion of Kura-Araxes Culture into NW Iran During 4^th and 3^rd Millennium B.C.; Under Supervision of Prof.  Antonio Sagona, University of Melbourne and Prof. Kamal Aldin Niknami, University of Tehran )
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2009-2011    M.A., Department of Archaeology, University of Tarbiat Modares.
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2005-2009  ,B.A., Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran

- Microsoft Office (Word, Power Point, Excel)
- Corel Graphic Utilities (Corel Draw, Corel Photopaint, Corel Trace)
- Adobe Photoshop
- AutoCAD Software 

 

 

 Capabilities 
Publication
 
Monographs/ Books:
 
Khatib Shahidi, Hamid and Abedi, Akbar.
2011 “Preliminary Report of Archaeological Excavation at Kul Tepe of Jolfa, First Season, Tehran, Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (in Persian with English abstract).
Abedi, Akbar.
2012 “Preliminary Report of Archaeological Excavation at Tepe Dava Goz-e Khoy, First Season, Tehran, Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (in Persian with English abstract).
Abedi, Akbar.
2014 “Preliminary Report of Archaeological Excavation at Kul Tepe of Jolfa, 2nd Season, Tehran, Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (in Persian with English abstract).
Abedi, Akbar.,
Forthcoming “Prehistoric Archaeology of Iranian Azerbaijan”
Abedi, Akbar.,
Forthcoming “Obsidian Source Distribution in NW Iran”
 
Book Chapters:
Khatib Shahidi, H., Omrani, B., Abedi, A.,
2012 “A history of Prehistoric Archaeological Research at NW Iran.” in Eighty years of Iranian Archaeology, Edited by Yousef Hassanzadeh and Sima Miri, Pp. 305-315, Pazineh Publication, National Museum of Iran and Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, Tehran.
 
Articles (Journal):
Abedi, Akbar.,
Forthcoming “Excavation at Neolithic and Chalcolithic Site of Tepe Dava Göz Khoy, NW Iran, 2012: First Preliminary Report”.
Kazempour, M., Niknami, K. A., Abedi, A.,
in press “New Kurgan Burial at Zardkhaneh, and Reassessment Chronology of Late Prehistory of NW Iran” Iranica Antiqua.
Eskandari, N., Fazeli, H., Alidadi Soleimani, N., Abedi, A., Javadi, M.,
in press “Settlement Patterns in Halil River Basin during Third and Second Millennia B.C, SE Iran, Iranica Antiqua.
Eskandari, N., Abedi, A.,
in press “A Reassessment Chronology of the Konar Sandal North, Jiroft, SE Iran, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy.
Eskandari, N., Abedi, A., Shafie, M., and Javadi, M.,
2014 “Keshit: an early Bronze Age urban centre on the western edge of the Lut Desert, south-eastern Iran”, Antiquity, http://journal.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/eskandari341.
Abedi, Akbar.
2014 “Kura-Araxes Culture and NW Iran after Yanik: New Perspectives from Excavations and Surveys”, Paleorient.
Abedi, A. Khatib Shahidi, H., Chataigner, CH., Niknami, K., Eskandari, N., Kazempour, M., Pirmohammadi, A., Hoseinzadeh, J., Ebrahimi, GH.
2014 “Excavation at Kul Tepe of (Jolfa), North-Western Iran, 2010: First Preliminary Report”, Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Vol. 51: 33-167.
Khademi Nadooshan, F., Abedi, A., Glascock, M. D., Eskandari, N., and Khazaee, M.
2013 “Provenance of Prehistoric Obsidian Artifacts from Kul Tepe, North-western Iran, Using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analysis” Journal of Archaeological Science 40 (1956-1965) (This Article is dedicated to Professor Khademi).
Abedi, A., Khatib Shahidi, H., Sharahi, I,. Eskandari, N. and Gholam Shirzadeh
2014 “New Evidence from Dalma and Kura-Araxes Culture at Tapeh Qaley-e Sarsakhti: Special Importance of Prehistoric Findings in East Central Zagros”, Iran and the Caucasus, vol. 18: 101-114 Brill: Leiden.
Darabi, H., Fazeli, H., Abedi, A., Eskandari, N.,
2013 “First Preliminary Report on Salvage Excavation at PPN Site of East Chia Sabz, Seymareh Basin”, Journal of Archaeological Studies, (In Persian with English Abstract).
Omrani, B. Khatib Shahidi, H and Abedi, A
2012 “Early Bronze Age, New Migrants and the Beginning of Township in Azerbaijan”, NW Iran, Iranica Antiqua, vol. XLVII: 1-28.
Alizadeh, M., Noori, S., Abedi, A.,
2012 “New Findings of Rock Art at Ostad Mirza in the West of the Alborz Mountain Range, Central Iran” International Newsletter on Rock Art (INORA).
Khazaee, M., Gloscock, M.D., Masjedi, P., Abedi, A. and Nadooshan, F. K.
2011 “The Origins of Obsidian Tools from Kul Tepe, NW Iran”, IAOS Bulletin, No. 45 Summer: 14-18.
Eskandari, N., Abedi. A., N, Niazi. S, Saeediyan
2010 “Tapeh Mes: A possible Middle Paleolithic site in Delijan plain, Central plateau of Iran”., Antiquity, Volume 084 Issue 323.
Abedi, A., Omrani. B. and Eskandari, N.
2009 “Kul Tapeh: An Early Bronze Age Site in NW Iran”., Antiquity, Volume 083 Issue 322.
Eskandari, N., Darabi, H., Abedi, A., Hoseinzadeh, J.
2010/1389 “Iron Age Bichrome House Model from Qaleh Gabri, Delijan district, Central Iran, Online Anthropology and Culture Journal: Faculty of Social Science Tehran University.
Darabi, H., Abedi, A., Eskandari, N., Alizadeh Sola, M.,
2009 “Archaeological Survey at Delijan District, Central Iran, First Preliminary Report, Modarres Archaeological Research Journal, vol II: 112-129 (In Persian with English Abstract).
Articles (Conference):
Abedi, Akbar.,
2015 “Kul Tepe Second Season Excavation Report” in 13th Annual Symposium of Iranian Archaeology, National Museum of Iran, Tehran.
Abedi, Akbar.,
2014 “Kura-Araxes Culture and NW Iran After Yanik; New Perspectives from Kul Tepe Excavations, in Urbanisation, Trade, Subsistence and Production during the Bronze Age on the Iranian Plateau, March 29-May 2, Lyon, France.
Abedi, Akbar.,
2013 “5th Millennium B.C. in NW Iran: Dalma and Pisdeli Once Again, in A new look at old routes in Western Asia: Rethinking Iran in the 5th millennium BCE, Berlin: May 31- 2 June.
Abedi, A., Khatib Shahidi, H., Nobari, A., Eskandari, N.
2012 “Kul Tepe: New Research on Late Chalcolithic and Kura-Araxes Site in NW Iran, First Results and new Perspectives, in The International Symposium on Eastern Anatolia- South Caucasus Culture, Erzurum-Turkey.
Abedi, A., Khatib Shahidi, H., and Eskandari, N.
2012 “A Report on the First Season of Prehistoric Archaeological Project of Kul Tepe, NW Iran, in 8th ICAANE International Conference, Warsaw.
Abedi, A., Khatib Shahidi, H.,
2012 “Preliminary Report on First Season of Excavation at Kul Tepe Jolfa, Southern Bank of Aras River: New Evidence from Chalcolithic, Kura-Araxes Culture and Achaemenid Empire in NW Iran”, the 11th Annual Symposium of Iranian Archaeology, National Museum of Iran, Tehran.
Abedi, A., Omrani, B., and Eskandari, N.
2011 “Bronze Age, New Migrants and Distribution of the Sites at Lake Urmia Basin and Zagros, NW Iran, in International Congress on Ancient Bonzes (Edited by Ergun Lafli), 19-25 May, Izmir.
Darabi, H., Eskandari, N., Abedi, A., Saeediyan, S.
2010 “Archaeological Survey in Delijan, Central Plateau of Iran”, in 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE): London.
Abbasi, M., Abedi, A., Abedi, M.,
2009 “The Impact of Aras Free Zone Organization on Tourism Development at Eastern Azerbaijan Province; Existing Potential and Capacity”, in 1st Congress on the Tourism Development Strategies: Tabriz, Payam-e Noor University.
Translation
Henrickson, E. F., Vitali, V., (Translated by Akbar Abedi)
2009 “The Dalma Tradition: Prehistoric Inter-Regional Cultural Integration in Highland Western Iran”, PALEORIENT. Vol . 13/2 – 1987.
 
Teaching Experience

 
 
Archaeological Field Project

 

 
 
Grants, Fellowships, Honors

 
 
Professional Associations and Activities
 
- Member of Society for Iranian Archaeology (SIA) 2011- present;
- Member of the Society of Iranian Archaeology (SOIA) 2011- present;