During my education, the shifting dynamics of human-animal interactions attracted my attention, particularly in the Zagros Mountains in Iran as a key region regarding debates on the onset of animal domestication and husbandry and the role animals played in different societies (nomad, semi-nomad and year-round). These interests encouraged me to follow the seminar of “Initiation to Archaeozoology” a cooperation between CNRS (Dr. Marjan Mashkour) and the University of Tehran (Dr. Haeedeh Laleh). Since my graduation, I have been working as a freelance archaeozoologist at the Bioarchaeology Laboratory of the University of Tehran and analyzed several faunal assemblages from the Late Pleistocene to Mid Holocene and participated as an archaeozoology assistant in several international projects (in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Georgia). Also, I took the course of “Carnivores: Evolution, Ecology, Taphonomy, Archaeology” in France organized by CNRS. I eager to learn about practical aspects and interpretation of stable isotope data in archaeological contexts, because by using the recent developments in archaeological science supplemented by conventional archaeozoological methods, we can offer a better understanding of past human-animal relationships, significantly, when we are facing with a unique environment such as the Zagros Mountains in Iran as a favorable condition for pastoralism. Research Research Areas: Archaeology Research Interests: Archaeozoology Bioarchaeology Cultural Anthropology Biochemistry Pastoralism Mobility and Subsistence Economy Stable Isotope Analysis Statistical Data Analysis Climate Change Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction Selected Publications Selected Publications: Mashkour, M., Davoudi, H., Mohaseb, F. A., Beizaee Doost, S., Khazaeli, R., Amiri, S., Fathi, H. Human and Animal Interactions in the Iranian Plateau: Research conducted by the Osteology Department of Iran National Museum. Tehran: Iran National Museum Publications and Coopération et culture Ambassade de France à Téhéran, Iran. (In Persian) ISBN: 978-964-421-195-9. Thevenin, M., Mashkour, M., Amiri, S., Berthon, R. Over mountain and vale, documenting pastoral practices in the Gədəbəy and Səmkir districts (Southwestern Azerbaijan). In Nomad lives from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day, edited by A. Averbouh, N. Goutas and S. Méry: 361-383. Paris: Muséum national d ‘Histoire naturelle, Publications scientifiques. Tengberg, M., Daujat, J., Mashkour, M., Decaix, A., Amiri, S., Sheikhi, Sh., Debue, K., Berthon, R., Lhuillier, J., and Bendezu-Sarmiento, J. Environment and Subsistence Economies at Iron Age Ulug-depe, South-eastern Turkmenistan: First Results from the Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies. In The Archaeology of Central Asia during the 1st Millennium BC. From the beginning of the Iron Age to the Hellenistic Period, Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016. Edited by J. Lhuillier, pp. 49-70. Amiri, S., Mashkour, M., Mohaseb, F. A., and Naseri, R. The subsistence economy of a highland settlement in the Zagros during the Bronze and Iron Ages. The case of Gūnespān (Hamadan, Iran). In J. Daujat, A. Hadjikoumis, R. Berthon, J. Chahoud, V. Kassianidou and J-D. Vigne (Eds.). Proceeding of the 13th International Conference of Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA[AA]), Nicosia, Cyprus, 7-9th June 2017, pp. 199-219. Daly, K.G., Mattiangeli, V., Hare, A.J., Davoudi, H., Fathi, H., Beizaee Doost, S., Amiri, S., Khazaeli, R., Decruyeare, D., Nokandeh, J., Richter, T., Darabi, H., Mortensen, P., Pantos, A., Yeomans, L., Bangsgaard, P., Mashkour, M., Zeder, M.A., Bradley, D.G. Herded and hunted goat genomes from the dawn of domestication in the Zagros Mountains. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), Vol. 118 (25), pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2100901118 Mashkour, M., Amiri, S., Fathi, H., Khazaeli, R., Debue, K., Decruyenaere, D., Beizaee Doost, S., Clavel, B., Komijani, S., Jajanidze R. and Sauer, E. Herding and hunting in the highlands from the Sasanian to late medieval periods. In Dariali: The ‘Caspian gates’ in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the age of the huns and the Middle Ages. The joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge excavations & surveys 2013-2016. By E. Sauer, L. Chologauri, A. Gabunia, K. Hopper, D. Lawrence, E. MacDonald, M. Mashkour, F. A. Mowat, D. Naskidashvili, K. Pitskhelauri, S. M.N. Priestman, L. Shumilovskikh, St John Simpson, A. Tiliakou et al. Vol. 2: 729-788. Oxbow Books Bergström, A., Frantz, L., Schmidt, R., Ersmark, E., Lebrasseur, O., Girdland-Flink, L., Lin, A. T., Stora, J., Sjögren, K-G., Anthony, D., Antipina, E., Amiri, S., Bar-Oz, G., Bazaliiskii, V. I., Bulatovic, J., Brown, D., Carmagnini, A., Davy, T., Feddorov, S., Fiore, I., Fulton, D., Germonpré, M., Haile, J., Irving-Pease, E. K., Jamieson, A., Janssens, L., Kirillova, I., Kolska Horwitz, L., Kuzmanovic´-Cvetkovic´, J., Kuzmin, Y., Losey, R. J., Ložnjak Dizdar, D., Mashkour, M., Novak, M., Onar, V., Orton, D., Pasaric, M., Radivojevic´, M., Rajkovic´, D., Roberts, B., Ryan, H., Sablin, M., Shidlovskiy, F., Stojanovic´, I., Tagliacozzo, A., Trantalidou, K., Ullén, I., Villaluenga, A., Wapnish, P., Dobney, K., Götherström, A., Linderholm, A., Dalén, L., Pinhasi, R., Larson, G., Skoglund, P. Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs. In Science 370 (6516): 557-564. DOI: 10.1126/science.aba9572 Amiri, S., Mashkour, M., Mohaseb, F.A., Tengberg, M., Abdollahi, M. and Sardari Zarchi A. Subsistence economy of Qela Gap; Luristan, Iran: from the Late Neolithic to the Iron Age. In Archaeology 3 (4): 125-132. Amiri, S., Mashkour M., Mohaseb, F.A., Naseri R. A glance into the subsistence economy of Gūnespān (Hamadan, Iran) during the Bronze Age and Median Periods. In M.H. Azizi Kharanaghi, M. Khanipour and R. Naseri (Eds.) In Proceeding of the 5th International Conference of Young Archaeologists. The Faculty of Litterature and Humanities and the Cultural Division of University of Tehran, 11-14 October 2015, pp. 311-346. (In Persian) Mashkour, M., Khazaeli, R., Fathi, H., Amiri, S., Decruyenaere, D., Mohaseb, A., Davoudi, H., Sheikhi Sh. And Sauer, E. Animal exploitation and subsistence on the borders of the Sasanian Empire: from the Gorgan Wall (Iran) to the Gates of the Alans (Georgia). In Sasanian Persia. Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia, edited by Eberhard Sauer: 74-95. Edinburg: Edinburg University Press. DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401012.001.0001 Amiri, S., Mashkour, M., Mohaseb, F.A., Tengberg, M., Abdollahi, M. & Sardari Zarchi, A. Subsistence economy of Qela Gap (Luristan, Iran) from the Late Neolithic to the Iron Age, an account of the archaeozoological studies. In M.H Azizi Kharanaghi, M. Khanipour and R. Naseri (Eds.), In Proceeding of the 4th International Conference of Young Archaeologists, The Faculty of Litterature and Humanities and the Cultural Division of University of Tehran, 27-29 October 2013, pp.597-626. (In Persian) Mashkour, M., Biglari, F., and Ghafouri N. with the collaboration of Ahadi G., Amiri S., Beyzaei Doust S., Davoudi H., Fathi H., Khazaeli R., Moradi B., Yashmi R. The OsteoArchaeological Project of the National Museum of Iran, an Interim Report. In Journal of Iranian Archaeology, 3: 72-76. Education Education: B.A: Archaeology, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran M.A: Archaeozoology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
