User:Hamedvahdati

Hamed Vahdati Nasab is a professor of archaeology at Tarbiat Modares University in Iran. He is an expert in human evolution, paleolithic archaeology, and genetic in archaeology. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Arizona State University, where he studied the facial morphology of Neanderthals under the supervision of Prof. Donald Johanson and Prof. Geoff Clark. He has also done postdoctoral research on ancient DNA analysis at the University of Alberta and bioarchaeology of the Salt men project at the University of Oxford. He has published many scholarly articles and led several archaeological projects in Iran and abroad. You can learn more about him from his [official page](^2^) or his [Google Scholar profile](^1^).

Source: Conversation with Bing, 11/9/2023

(1) Hamed Vahdati Nasab Official Page - Tarbiat Modares University. https://en-pro.modares.ac.ir/~vahdati.

(2) ‪hamed vahdati nasab‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fo230A0AAAAJ. (3) iranian.com: Hame

Publications:

Shoaee, M, J, Paul S. Breeze; Nick A. Drake; Seyed Milad Hashemi; Hamed Vahdati Nasab; Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach; Thomas Stevens; Nicole Boivin; Michael D. Petraglia

2023                  Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran. PLOS ONE, 18(3): e0281872. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281872

Kamrani, Z, Vahdati Nasab, H, Bonilauri, S, Hashemi, M, Jayez, M, Akhavan Kharrazian, M, Beheshti, I, and G. Berillon

2022                  Middle Paleolithic Lithic Industries from Qaleh Kurd Cave, Qazvin Province, Iran. Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies. Volume 12, No 2, pages: 1-14.

Anjomrooz, S, H. Vahdati Nasab, N. Eskandari

2022                  New Evidence of Pleistocene Hominin Occupations in the Southern Iran, Kerman Province. Antiquity. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.120.

Akhavan Kharaziana,M, G. Jamet, S. Puaud, H. Vahdati Nasab, M. Hashemi, G. Guerin, M. Heydari, P. Antoine, J-J. Bahain, G. Berillon

2022                    First geoarchaeological study of a Paleolithic site in the northern edge of the Iranian Central Desert: Mirak (Semnan, Iran). Journal of Arid Environments. 201. 104739.

Shoaee, M, J, H. Vahdati Nasab, M. Petralgia

2021                  The Paleolithic of the Iranian Plateau: Hominin occupation history and implications for human dispersals across southern Asia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 62. 101292.

Hashemi, M, H. Vahdati Nasab, G. Berillon, M. Oryat

2021                  An Investigation on the Shape of the Flake-based Lithic Tools using 3-D Geometric

Morphometrics; Case study: Mirak Paleolithic Site, Iran. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 37. 102948

Heydari, M, G. Guerin, S. Kreutzer, G. Jamet, M. Akhavan Kharazian, M. Hashemi, H. Vahdati Nasab, G. Berillon

2020                Do Bayesian methods lead to more precise chronologies? “Baylum” and a first OSL-based chronology for the palaeolithic open-air site of Mirak (Iran). Quaternary Geochronology. 59. 101082.

Vahdati Nasab, H, M. Nikzad, M. Jayez, M. Hashemi, Z. Knapp, N. Sykes, M. Zareh Khalili, H. Ilkhani Moghaddam, F. Bakhtiari Nasab, and D. Olzsewski

2020                Komishan Cave: A Mesolithic and Later Settlement on the Southeastern Shore of the Caspian Sea, IRAN. Ancient Near Eastern Studies. 57: 97-125.

Feizi, N, H. Vahdati Nasab and T. Wynn

2020                 New Approach to Analysis the Middle Paleolithic Points of the Iranian Plateau: Style vs. Environment. Journal of Lithic Technology. 45 (1): 19-37.

Vahdati Nasab, H, A. Aali, M. Kazzazi, M. Pollard, and T. Stolner

2019                       Reappraisal of the Number of Salt Mummies Identified in Chehrābād Salt Mine, Zanjan, Iran. Journal of Bioarchaeology of the Near East. 13: 23-47.

Vahdati Nasab, H, S. Shirvani, and S. Rigaud

2019                       Northern Iranian Central Plateau at the End of Pleistocene and Early Holocene: Emergence      of Domestications. Journal of World Prehistory. 32 (3): 287-310.

Vahdati Nasab, H, G. Berillon, G. Jamet, M. Hashemi, M. Jayez, S. Khaksar, Z. Anvari, G. Guerin, M. Heydari, M. Akhavan Kharrazian, S. Puaud, S. Bonilauri, V. Zeitoun, N. Seveque, J. Darvishi Khatooni, and A. Asghari Khaneghah

2019                       The Paleolithic Open-Air Site of Mirak, Northern Edge of the Iranian Central Desert (Semnan, IRAN): Evidence of repeated human occupations during late Pleistocene. Comptes rendus Palevol. 18: 465-478.

Abolfathi, M., Baills, H., Bonilauri, S., Forestier, H., Vahdati Nasab, H., Khaneghah, A.A. and Berillon, G

2018                 Histoire récente des recherches sur le Paléolithique supérieur dans le Zagros et dans l’Alborz (Iran). L'Anthropologie. 122: 749-761.

Feizi, N, H. Vahdati Nasab and T. Wynn

2018                      Consider the third dimension: A New approach for measuring the Symmetry of the middle Paleolithic points of the Mirak Site. Comptes rendus Palevol.17: 388-398.

Vahdati Nasab, H, K. Roustaei, M. Ghamari Fatideh, F. Shojaeefar, and M. Hashemi Sarvandi

2017                The first evidence for Late Pleistocene hominin populations on the southern Caspian Sea coast. Antiquity. Volume 91, issue 355: 1-5.

Jayez, M and H. Vahdati Nasab

2016                A Separation: Caspian Mesolithic VS Trialetian Lithic Industry (A Research on Excavated Site of Komishan, Southeast of Caspian Sea). Paléorient. Vol 42.1, pages: 81-100.

Jayez, M and H. Vahdati Nasab

2016               An Experimental Study on the Methods of Quantifying Fragmented Flake. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 6: 442-450.

Vahdati Nasab, H, and M. Hashemi

2016                Playas and Middle Paleolithic Settlement of the Iranian Central Desert: The discovery of the Chah-e Jam Middle Paleolithic Site. Quaternary International. 408, pages: 140-152.

Vahdati Nasab, H, and G. A. Clark

2015              Modern Human Origins: Midfacial Prognathism, 3D Approach. International Journal of the Society of Iranian Archaeologists, volume 1, number 1, pages: 33-47.

Vahdati Nasab, H, and G. A. Clark

2014                The Upper Paleolithic of the Iranian Central Desert: the Delazian Site – a Case Study. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (AMIT). Number 46, pages: 1-21.

Rezaei, M. H, A. H. Nobari, H. Vahdati Nasab, F. Khademi Nadooshan

2013             Rock Engraving of Ghalat Niloo, International Journal of Humanities, Volume 20(3), 81-92.

Vahdati Nasab, H, G. A. Clark, and S. Torkamandi

2013              Late Pleistocene Dispersal Corridors across the Iranian Plateau: a Case Study from Mirak, a Middle Paleolithic Site on the Northern Edge of the Iranian Central Desert (Dasht-e Kavir). Quaternary International. 300, pages: 267-281.

Vahdati Nasab, H

2011              Reconstruction of early Neolithic/Bronze Age population diversity in the Shamanka II cemetery at Lake Baikal using mtDNA polymorphism, Progress in Biological Sciences, Volume 1, No 2, pp: 29-35.

Vahdati Nasab, H and M. Kazzazi

2011              Metric Analysis of a Female Figurine from Tepe Sarab. IRAN, Volume 49, pages: 1-10.

Vahdati Nasab, H, and M. Vahidi

2011              Reevaluation of Scrapers Reduction Model Using Geometric Index of Reduction (Mar-Tarik Middle Paleolithic Assemblages), Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, Volume 1, pages: 26-34.

Vahdati Nasab, H

2010              Paleolithic Archaeology of Iran, International Journal of Humanities, Volume 18(2), pages: 63-87.

Rezvani, H & H. Vahdati Nasab

2010                      A major Paleolithic open site at Mirak, Semnan province, Iran, Antiquity. Volume 84, Issue 323, project gallery.

Vahdati Nasab, H

2010                      Reply to the Human Prehistory in the Arabo-Persian Gulf Oasis, Current Anthropology, volume 51, pages: 873-874.

Vahdati Nasab, H, S. Hajjami, and M. Mortazavi

2010                      Palaeolithic Ladiz revisited: a reassessment of the Ladizian lithic industry, Baluchestan, Iran. Antiquity. Volume 84, Issue 324, project gallery.

Vahdati Nasab, H

2010                      Reassessment of the Prehistory of Southwestern Iran Report (Hole and Flannery 1967), International Journal of Humanities. Volume 17, Number 2, pp: 1-12.

Vahdati Nasab, H, H. Mollasalehi, M. Saeedpour, and N. Jamshidi

2009                      Paleolithic Levalloisian Assemblages from Boeen Zahra in the Qazvin Plain (Iran). Antiquity. Volume 83, issue 320, project gallery.

Vahdati Nasab, H, M. H. Rezaei, R. Naderi, and L. C. Smith

2008                      Helak, a Paleolithic Cave Complex Featuring Rock art along the Northern Shore of Parishan Lake, Fars province, Iran. Nameh Pajouheshgah, International volume, 22 and 23, 91-96.

Jamialahmadi, M, H. Vahdati Nasab, and H. Fazeli Nashli

2008               Kashafrud Revisited, Discovery of New Paleolithic sites in Northeastern of Iran. Antiquity. Volume 82, issue 317, project gallery.

Roustaei, K, H. Vahdati Nasab, F. Biglari, S. Heydari, G. A. Clark, and J. M. Lindly

2004                Recent Paleolithic Surveys in Luristan.

Current Anthropology, Vol 45, No 5:692-707

Roustaie K, Biglary F, Heydary S and H, Vahdati Nasab

2002                New Research on the Paleolithic of Luristan, West Central Iran.

Antiquity 76, March.