Dr. Mohsen Zeidi

Books (in English)

• 2008 A. Tsuneki, M. Zeidi (eds.), Tang-e Bolaghi, The Iran-Japan Archaeological Project for the Sivand Dam Salvage Area. Department of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba press.

Books (in Farsi)

• 2011 V. Jahani, M. Zeidi. Archaeology of Somehsara (Introduction of cultural and historical monuments of Somehsara). Gilan CHTHO and Somehsara governorship, Bolour press, Rasht.

Papers (in Farsi)

• (In Prep.) The Early Holocene Human Occupation of the Western Zagros, Iran. In: Geology of Quaternary.
• (In press) Newly discovered 5^th Millennium BC Sites in the Bolaghi Valley and Pasargad Plain. In: Volume dedicated to the Archaeological Research in Pasargad and Tang-e Bolaghi.
• 2013 Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Survey of Russian-Iranian Archaeological Expedition on the Southern Coasts of the Mazandaran Sea, Iran. Anatoly Derevianko, Mohsen Zeidi, Anatoly Zenin, Sergey Gladyshev, Andrey Krivoshapkin. In: Iranian Archaeology, vol. 4, pp. 7-22.
• 2012 M. Zeidi. Report on the archaeological survey in Mehran and Boluk-e Anaran in Dehluran, Ilam Province. In: Namvarnameh: Papers in Honour of Massoud Azarnoush, H. Fahimi & K. Alizadeh (eds.), Tehran, 157-168.
• 2012 M. Zeidi. Gozareshe kavoshe boreshe laye negari dar borjake tape shomali Sialk. In: Malek Shahmirzadi, S. (ed.), The Villagers of Sialk, Reports of the Sialk Reconsideration Project, Tehran, 39-60.
• 2008 M. Zeidi. Settlement pattern and population fluctuation of Prehistoric to the Islamic period in the Kur River valleys, northwest of Fars province, Iran. In: Journal of Archaeology and History, Vol. 21(2); Vol.22 (1), pp. 5-31.
• 2006 M. Zeidi. Report on the Archaeological survey in Somehsara, Gilan province. In: Journal of Gilehva.

Papers in Collective Volume (in Farsi)

• 2005 Description of the Archaeological sites in Mianab plain, Shushtar. Alireza Khosrowzadeh, Mohsen Zeidi, et al. In: Abbas Moghaddam (ed.), Archaeological survey in Mianab plain, Shushtar, pp. 37-105.
• 2005 Description and classification of prehistoric potteries in Mianab plain, Shushtar. Negin Miri, Mohsen Zeidi. In: Abbas Moghaddam (ed.), Archaeological survey in Mianab plain, Shushtar, pp. 109-114.
• 2005 Description of Uruk potteries (Susa II). Negin Miri, Mohsen Zeidi. In: Abbas Moghaddam (ed.), Archaeological survey in Mianab plain, Shushtar, pp. 115-120.
• 2005 Report on the test excavation in Tappeh Meshval III (ks1617). Negin Miri, Mohsen Zeidi. In: Abbas Moghaddam(ed.), Archaeological survey in Mianab plain, Shushtar, pp. 525-540.
• 2005 Report on the test excavation in Tappeh Abu Amud Nejat (ks1558). Negin Miri, Mohsen Zeidi. In: Abbas Moghaddam (ed.), Archaeological survey in Mianab plain, Shushtar, pp. 451-476.

Papers (in English)

• (In press) Pouria Khadish, Saman Hamzavi, Mohsen Zeidi. A Note on a newly discovered Aceramic Neolithic site in Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, Iran. In: Journal of Iranian Archaeology.
• (2016) Subsistence Strategies in the Aceramic Neolithic at Chogha Golan, Iran. Britt, Starkovich, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conad. In: Bones and Identity: Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia, N. Marom, R. Yeshurun, L. Weissbrod, and G. Bar-Oz (eds.), pp. 45-71, Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK.
• (2015) Resilience at the Transition to Agriculture: The Long-Term Landscape and Resource Development at the Aceramic Neolithic Tell Site of Chogha Golan (Iran), S. Riehl, E. Asouti, D. Karakaya, B. Starkovich, M. Zeidi, N.J. Conard. In: BioMed Research International, Volume 2015, Article ID 532481, 22 pages.
• (Submitted) Wild plant gathering in the early farming community at aceramic Neolithic Chogha Golan, Iran Alexander Weide, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard. In: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
• (Submitted) The Early Holocene Human Occupation at Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, Western Iran, Mohsen Zeidi, Simone Riehl, Brit Starkovich, Nicholas J. Conard. In: Journal of Archaeologies.
• (Submitted) Characterizing the basal lithic assemblages from deep sounding of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Viola Schmid, Mohsen Zeidi, Guillaume Porraz, Nicholas J. Conard. Paper presented In: The Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists 2015, University of Zimbabwe.
• (Submitted) Changing subsistence strategies at the aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan (Iran), Alexander Weide, Britt Starkovich, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conrad. In: International Open Workshop: Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes IV, University of Kiel, Germany.
• (Submitted) Innovative expressions before the supposed rise of the Still Bay - Evidence from Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Viola Schmid, Nicholas J. Conard, Mohsen Zeidi, Guillaume Porraz. In: International ROCEEH Conference on Human Expansions, The Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt.
• (2016) Rasoul Seyedin Borujeni, Saman Hamzavi Zarghani & Mohsen Zeid
• Discovery of long term occupation in the Saimarreh River Valley, western Iran (Report on the archaeological survey). In: Proceedings of the 9^th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, R. A. Stucky, O. Klein & H-P Mathys (eds.), Vol. 3 (Reports), pp. 379-391.
• (2016) S. Hamzavi & M. Zeidi.  Tappeh Poustchi: A Prehistoric Site in Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran. In: The Neolithic of the Iranian Plateau (Recent Research), K. Roustaei & M. Maskour (eds.), Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 18, pp. 227-240.
• (Forthcoming) Preliminary Report on the 2006 Archaeological Survey of Russian-Iranian Archaeological Expedition in Southern Coast of the Caspian Sea. Anatoly Derevianko, Mohsen Zeidi, Anatoly Zenin, Sergey Gladyshev, Andrey Krivoshapkin. In: The Paleolithic Settlement of Zagros and the Iranian Plateau: Recent Research and Re-analysis. Ex-Orient series (accepted in 2011).
• (Forthcoming) Report on the 2008 Survey of the Tübingen-Iranian Stone Age Research Project in the Kazerun and Marvdasht. Mohsen Zeidi, Saman Hamzavi, Rahmat Naderi, Nicholas J. Conard. In: The Paleolithic Settlement of Zagros and the Iranian Plateau: Recent Research and Re-analysis. Ex-Orient Series (accepted in 2011).
• (2016) Tang-e Khiareh: A New Discovered Neolithic Site in the Kur River Basin of Fars Province, Iran. M. Zeidi, S. Hamzavi and N. J. Conard. In: The Neolithic of the Iranian Plateau (Recent Research), K. Roustaei & M. Maskour (eds.), Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 18, pp. 217-226.
• 2015 Upper Palaeolithic archaeobotany of Ghar-e Boof cave, Iran: a case study in site disturbance and methodology, Jonathan A. Baines, Simone Riehl, Nicholas J. Conard, Mohsen Zeidi. In: Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 7(2): 245-256.
• 2015 Using new morphological criteria to identify domesticated emmer wheat at the aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan (Iran), Alexander Weide, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard. In: Journal of Archaeological Science 57: 109-118.
• 2013 M. Zeidi & N. J. Conard. Chipped stone artifacts from the Aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, western Iran. In: F. Borrell, J. J. Ibanez, M. Molist (eds.), pp. 315-326, Stone tools in transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
• 2013 N. J. Conard & M. Zeidi. The ground stone tools from the Aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, western Iran. In: F. Borrell, J. J. Ibanez, M. Molist (eds.), pp. 365-376, Stone tools in transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
• 2013 Zeidi, M., S. Riehl and N. J. Conard. Archaeobotanical Archiving, Reply to Golzari. Science. 341: 840.
• 2013 Emergence of Agriculture in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi & Nicholas J. Conard. Science 341:65-67.
• 2013 Revisiting Neolithisation in the Zagros Foothills; Excavation at Chogha Golan A PPN Site in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Western Iran. Nicholas J. Conard, Simone Riehl and Mohsen Zeidi. In: R. Mathews and H. Fazeli, (eds.), pp. The Neolithicisation of Iran, London.
• 2012 Plant use in three Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites of the northern and eastern Fertile Crescent: a preliminary report. S. Riehl, M. Benz, N. J. Conard, H. Darabi, K. Deckers, H. Fazeli Nashli, M. Zeidi-Kulehparcheh. In: Journal of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol. 21: 95-106.
• 2010   Archaeological evidence for Achaemenid settlement within the Mamasani Valleys, Western Fars, Iran. A. Asgari Chaverdi, A. Khosrowzadeh, B. McCall, C.A. Petrie, D. T. Potts, K. Roustaei, M. Seyedin, L.R. Weeks, and M. Zeidi. In: J. Curtis and S. Simpson (eds.), The World of Achaemenid Persia, History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East, Proceedings of a Conference at the British Museum 2005, I. B. Tauris & Iran Heritage Foundation, London.
• 2009 Takuro Adachi and Mohsen Zeidi. Achaemenid and Post-Achaemenid Remains from TB 75. In: Boucharlat R. and Fazeli Nasli eds., Achaemenid Research on Texts and Archaeology (ARTA) 2009 (002), pp. 1-8.
• 2008 Akira Tsuneki and Mohsen Zeidi. Excavations at TB75 (Haji Bahrami Cave), In: Tang-e Bolaghi, The Iran-Japan Archaeological Project for the Sivand Dam Salvage Area. A. Tsuneki, M. Zeidi (eds.). Department of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba press. pp. 41-68.
• 2008 Akira Tsuneki and Mohsen Zeidi. Excavations at TB130. In: Tang-e Bolaghi, The Iran-Japan Archaeological Project for the Sivand Dam Salvage Area. A. Tsuneki, M. Zeidi (eds.). Department of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba press. pp. 69-84.
• 2007 Conard, N. J., E. Ghasidian, S. Heydari, R. Naderi, and M. Zeidi. The 2006 Season of the Tübingen-Iranian Stone Age Research Project in the Provinces of Fars and Markazi. In: Archaeological Reports 7.2 On the occasion of the 9th Annual symposium on Iranian archaeology, ed. By H. Fazeli, pp. 43–67. ICAR, Tehran, Iran.
• 2007 Zeidi, M., K. Yamauchi and S. Nishiyama. Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Survey in the Bolaghi Valley and its vicinity. In: Archaeological Reports 7.2 On the occasion of the 9th Annual symposium on Iranian archaeology, ed. By H. Fazeli, pp. 27-41. ICAR, Tehran, Iran.
• 2007 Proto-Neolithic Caves in the Bolaghi valley,southern Iran. A. Tsuneki, M.Zeidi and K.Ohnuma. In Journal of IRAN, vol.XLV, pp.1-22.
• 2006 Eight thousand years of history in Fars Province, Iran. D.T. Potts, K. Roustaei, K. Alamdari, K. Alizadeh, A. Asgari Chaverdi, A. Khosrowzadeh, B. McCall, L. Niakan, C.A. Petrie, M. Seyedin, L.R. Weeks M. Zeidi. In: Near Eastern Archaeology, 68 (3): pp. 84-92.
• 2006 Neolithic settlement in highland Fars: new evidence from the Mamasani districr. L.R. Weeks, K. Alizadeh, L. Niakan, K. Alamdari, M. Zeidi, A. Khosrowzadeh, B. McCall.In: Journal of IRAN, vol.XLIV.
• 2006 Conard, N. J., E. Ghasidian, S. Heydari, and M. Zeidi. Report on the 2005 Survey of the Tübingen-Iranian Stone Age Research Project in the Provinces of Esfahan, Fars and Kohgiluyeh-Boyerahmad. In: Archaeological Reports 5, ed. By M. Azarnoush, pp. 9-34.  ICAR, Tehran, Iran.
• 2006 Survey of Dasht-e Rostam-e Yek and Do, in the Mamasani district, M. Zeidi, A. Khosrowzadeh, B. McCall. In: Mamasani Archaeological project, stage one.ICAR and University of Sydney.
• 2006 Excavation at Tol-e Nurabad (Trench B). M. Zeidi, A. Khosrowzadeh. In: Mamasani Archaeological project, stage one.ICAR and University of Sydney.
• 2003 Excavation at Tall-e Bakun A and B, Jari A and B, and Mushki: reconstruction of the prehistoric environment in Marvdasht. A. Alizadeh, M. Zeidi, L. Niakan, A. Asgari, A. Atabaki. In: Annual Report, University of Chicago, pp.33-45.

Papers (in Deutsch)

• 2016 Conard, N. J., Zeidi, M., Janus, A. Abschließender Bericht über die Nachgrabung am Vogelherd und die Sondage in der Wolftalhöhle. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2015. pp. 66-72.
• 2015 Conard, N. J. A. Janus and M. Zeidi. Neues aus dem Lonetal: Ergebnisse von Ausgrabungen an der Fetzershaldenhöhle und dem Vogelherd. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2014. pp. 59-64.
• 2014 Conard, N. J. and M. Zeidi. Ausgrabungen in der Fetzershaldenhöhle und der Lindenhöhle im Lonetal sowie neue Funde aus dem Vogelherd. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2013. pp. 63-67.
•  2014 Simone Riehl, M. Zeidi and N. J. Conard. Neu Ergebnisse aus der Wiege der Landwirtschaft. In: Senckenberg Natur-Forschung-Museum 144 (7-8): 250-255.
• 2013 Conard, N. J., M. Zeidi and J. Bega. Die letzte Kampagne der Nachgrabungen am Vogelherd. Archäologische Ausgrabungen Baden-Württemberg 2012. pp. 84-88
• 2012 N.J. Conard and M. Zeidi. Zur Fortsetzung der Ausgrabungen am Vogelher in Lonetal. In: Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2011 (Stuttgart 2012), 61-65.
• 2011 N.J. Conard and M. Zeidi. Der Fortgang der Ausgrabungen am Vogelherd im Lonetal. In: Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2010 (Stuttgart 2011), 61-64.
• 2010 N.J. Conard, M. Malina, M. Zeidi Kulehparcheh. Neue Kunst und erste Einblick in ungestörte Schichten am Vogelherd. In: D. L. Krausse, Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2009 (Stuttgart 2010), 57-61.

Book review

• (2013) The Earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani) Central Zagros Archaeological Project, Volume 1(, Edited by R. Matthews, W. Matthews, and Y. Mohammadifar. In: Iranian Archaeology, Vol. 4, pp. 122-124 (in English).
• (In press) Excavations at Tepe Guran: The Neolithic Period. By Peder Mortensen. In: Journal of Iranian Archaeology (In Farsi).

2012 Mohsen Zeidi, Simone Riehl, Hannes Napierela and Nicholas J. Conard. Chogha Golan: A PPN Site in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Ilam Province, Iran: Report on the First Season of Excavation in 2009), In, Matthews, R.,Curtis, J. (eds.) 7ICAANE, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Volume 3: Fieldwork & Recent Research Posters. 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 259-276.

2016 New Results from Ghar-e Boof and their implications for the shift from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic in the southern Zagros Mountains. M. Zeidi, K. Bretzke & N. J. Conard. In: 6^th Annual ESHE Meeting, 14-18 September 2016, Madrid, Spain.

2015 Preliminary results on harvesting techniques and domestication of cereals at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Chogha Golan, Iran, Alexander Weide, Doga Karakaya, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard. In:

2015 Detecting heat treatment among the Aceramic Neolithic artifacts from Chogha Golan; Iran, Mojdeh Lajmiri, N.J.Conard, M.Zeidi, M. Bolus, P. Schmidt. In: 57^th Annual Meeting of Hugo Obermaier –Gesellschaft für Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit e. V., April 7–11, Heidenheim, Germany.

2013 Doga Karakaya, Simone Riehl, Britt M. Starkovich, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas Conard. Pre-Pottery Neolithic Plant Remains from Chogha Golan in Southwestern Iran. In: 16th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, 17-21 June 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece.

2013 Alexander Weide, Doğa Karakaya, Simone Riehl, Mohsen Zeidi, Nicholas J. Conard. Cultivation and domestication of cereals at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Chogha Golan, Iran. In: 16th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, 17-21 June 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece.

2012 M. Zeidi, S. Riehl, B. Starkovich, N. J. Conard. Chogha Golan; an Aceramic Neolithic Site in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Western Iran. In: 11th Annual Symposium of Iranian Archaeology, 15-18 December, Tehran, National Museum of Iran.

2009 M. Zeidi, R. Naderi and N. J. Conard.  Archaeological Survey in the Kazerun and Marvdasht Regions of Southwestern Zagros Mountains of Iran. In: 51th Hugo-Obermaier-Tagung, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2003 M. Zeidi. Pseudo-prehistoric ceramics from southern Iran. In journal of Bastanpazhuhi, no.11

1999 M. Zeidi & M. T. Atayi. Women’s Robing in the Sasanian Era (1), Archaeognosy 4: 47-57.

1999 M. Zeidi & M. T. Atayi. Women’s Robing in the Sasanian Era (2), Archaeognosy 5 & 6: 39-47.

2016 V. C. Schmid, G. Porraz, V. Rots, C. Lentfer, M. Zeidi and N. J. Conard. Bifacial Technologies and the definition of Still Bay: New data from the basal layers of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal. 23rd Biennal meeting of SAFA, 26 June-2 July, Toulouse, France (Presented by V.C. Schmid).

2016 Conard, N. J., Miller, C.E., Rots, V., Schmid. V.C., Will, M., Zeidi, M., Porraz, G. Cultural Stratigraphy at Sibudu and its implications for our understanding of the MSA. 23rd Biennal meeting of SAFA, 26 June-2 July, Toulouse, France (Presented by N. J. Conard).

2016 Conard, N. J. and Zeidi, M., Zanoni, A., Miller, C.E. High resolution stratigraphic observations and its formation processes at the Aceramic site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, Iran. 10ICAANE, 25-29 April, Vienna, Austria. (Presented by N. J. Conard).

2016 Zeidi, M. and Conard, N. J., The lithic economy reflected in chipped stone artifacts of the Aceramic Neolithic of Chogha Golan, Iran. 10ICAANE, 25-29 April, Vienna, Austria.

2015 Zeidi, M. and Conard, N.J., Ghar-e Boof, an Upper Paleolithic site in Southern Zagros, Iran. ICAR, Tehran, September 2015.

2014 Conard, N. J., V. C. Schmid, M. Zeidi and G. Porraz. 17th UISPP Congress. Burgos, Spain. September, Characterizing the stratigraphy of bifacial technology in the assemblages from the Deep Sounding at Sibudu Cave, in Kwa-Zulu Natal (Presented by N. J. Conard).

2014 Nicholas J. Conard and M. Zeidi. The record of clay objects from the aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, Iran. In: 9 ICANNE. Basel, Switzerland, June 2014. (Pesented by N. J. Conard)

2013 Nicholas J. Conard, V. C. Schmid, M. Zeidi and G. Porraz. Bifacial technology at Sibudu and its implications for our understanding of the Still Bay. In: Annual meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Vienna, Austria, September 2013 (Presented by N. J. Conard).

2012 M. Zeidi, S. Riehl & N. J. Conard. New excavation results from Chogha Golan: a PPN site in the western Zagros region of Iran. In: 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, April 30-May 4, 2012 in Warsaw, Poland.

2012 M. Zeidi & N. J. Conard. The sequence of chipped stone artifacts from the PPN site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, western Iran. In: 7th International Conference on the Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, 14-17 February, Barcelona (Presented by M. Zeidi).

2012 N. J. Conard & M. Zeidi. The ground stone tools from the PPN Site of Chogha Golan, Ilam Province, western Iran.  In: 7th International Conference on the Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, 14-17 February, Barcelona (Presented by M. Zeidi).

2010 M. Zeidi. Chogha Golan: A PPN Site in the Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Ilam Province, Iran. In Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, University of Freiburg.

2007 M. Zeidi. A preliminary report on the archaeological survey in the Bolaghi valley and Pasargadae plain. In Faculty of Beautiful Arts, University of Tehran.

2007 M. Zeidi. Archaeological excavations and surveys in Fars province (2003-2006). In Middle Eastern Cultural Center, April 14th, Tokyo.

2007 M. Zeidi. Report on the last finds of archaeological excavations in the Bolaghi valley.  In Tarbiat Modarres University,Tehran.

2006 M. Zeidi. Archaeological excavation of joint expedition of Iran-Japan in the Bolaghi valley. In National Museum, Tehran.

2006 M. Zeidi.  Preliminary report of archaeological excavations in Bolaghi valley. In Hotel Homa, Shiraz.

• 2011 Prehistory at the crossroads of Science and Conservation, Erasmus Intensive Program, June 18th – July 2nd, Quinson, Alpes de Haute Provence, France.
• 2011 Technologie de la Pierre Tailleee Prehistorique : Methodologie et initiation pratique qui s’est déroulé au Château de Campagne, 21- 29 septembre, Dordogne, France.

• 2005-2007 Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (Researcher).
• 2004 Persepolis pottery data bank (supervisor).
• 2002-2003 National Museum of Iran, Research center for archaeological survey (Member).