Dr. Mohammad Karami
| 1979 | Born in Tehran, Iran |
Education
| 2000-2004 | Bachelor's in archaeology, University of Abhar, Iran |
| 2004-2006 | Master's in archaeology, Azad University of Tehran, Iran |
| 2010-2015 | PhD in archaeology, University of Tübingen, Germany |
Scholarships
| 2010-2014 | Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Germany |
Career
| 2002-2003 | Research Centre for Archaeological Research, National Museum, Tehran, Iran |
| 2003-2004 | Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research (ICAR), Publication department |
| 2004-2008 | Pottery department, National Museum, Tehran, Iran |
| 2008-2010 | Manager of the Pottery department, National Museum, Tehran, Iran |
| 2014-2015 | Research associate at Deutsche Archäologisches Institut, Berlin-Afghanistan: Early Mining and Metallurgy |
| 2015-ongoing | Research Associate at the University of Tübingen, Field director of South of Jiroft Archaeological Surveys (Sub-project A03 of SFB1070: ResourceCultures, University of Tübingen) |
Field Experiences
| 2003 | Geolo-archaeological surveys and sampling alongside the Persian Gulf shorelines, Khuzestan, Iran |
| 2003 | Excavation at Tall-I Bakun and Tall-I Mushki, Fars, Iran |
| 2003 | Excavation at Tol-e Bondu, Mamasani, Fars, Iran |
| 2003 | Excavation at Arisman, Natanz, central Iran |
| 2004 | Excavation at Beladieh and Chogha Dosar, Khuzestan, Iran |
| 2004 | Excavation at Shamshirgah, Qom, Iran |
| 2005 | Archaeological surveys in the plain of Ramhormoz, Khuzestan, Iran |
| 2005 | Excavation at Bloaghi Valley, sites TB73 and TB131, Fars, Iran |
| 2005 | Excavation at Tape Abu Fandoweh, Khuzestan, Iran |
| 2006 | Excavation at Kalateh Khan, Shahrud, central Iran |
| 2006 | Excavation at Bloaghi Valley, sites TB91 and TB119, Fars, Iran |
| 2009 | Excavation at Kemil Depe, Aqjabedi, Azerbaijan Republic |
| 2014 | Excavation at Sureja, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan |
| 2015-2020 | Field director and professor assistant of South of Jiroft Archaeological Surveys (SOJAS), Jiroft, Iran |
| 2019 | Archaeological excavations at Malekabad, Kerman, Iran |
Publications in Persian
- 2005 "Uruk Potteries from Tell Beladiyeh (KS-108); Upon C6N Trench" (in Farsi), Payām-e Bāstān Shenās 4: 5–20.
- 2006 "Toll-i Bakīyān, an Appropriate Alternative site for the Investigation on the Early to Late Fars periods" (in Farsi), Payām-e Bāstān Shenās 5: 19–30.
- 2006 "Gara-Goez Potteires; Northwestern Iran" (in Farsi), Payām-e Bāstān Shenās 6: 5–16.
- 2007 "Batwand Cemetery, Khuzestan" (in Farsi), Pāresh Gard 5: 1–10.
- 2014 "A Reflection on Economical-Political Development in Northern Fars during the 5th Millennium BC; Based on Recent Darreh-ye Bolaghi Excavations" (in Farsi), In Proceedings of the International Conference of Young Archaeologists, edited by M. Hossein Azizi Kharanaghi, Morteza Khanipour, Reza Naseri, and Kamal Al din Niknami, 1st, 127–40. Tehran: Dāneshkade Adabiyāt va Olum-i Ensāni va Moā’venat Farhangi Dāneshgvh Tehrān.
- 2017 "Pasargadae during the 5th millennium BC" (in Farsi), In Pasargadae I. Majmoūeh Maghāleh-hāye Hefāzat va Maremmat, Bāstān Shenāsī, Me’mārī, Zamīn Shenāsī, Mardom shenāsī and Gardeshgarī, 1st ed., 1:5–18. Tehran: Pāygāh-e Mīrās-e Jahānī-ye Pāsārgād va Enteshārāt-e Bahār.
- 2019 "Pre-historic Research Background of Fars from the beginning until 1979" (in Farsi), In Āfarīn Nāmeh; Maghāleh -hāye Bāstān Shenāsī dar Nekūdasht-e Ostād Mehdī Rahbar, edited by Yousof Moradi Bistuni, 1st ed., 85–94. Tehran: Pazhūheshgāh-e Mirās-e Farhangi va Gardeshgari.
- 2020 "Delimitation of Malekābād I on the West and Southwest Slopes of Jebāl-e Bārez, Kerman" (in Farsi), In Gozāresh-hāye Hefdahomīn Gerdehamāiee Sālāneh-ye Bāstān Shenāsi-ye Irān (Proceedings of 17th Annual Symposium on the Iranian Archaeology 2018-2019), edited by Rouollah Shirazi and Shaghayegh Hurshid, 1st ed., 2:1051–57. Tehran.
Publications in English
- 2005 Alizadeh, Abbas, Ali Mahfroozi, Alireza Abol Ahrar, Kobra Aqaii, Saeed Ebrahimi, Tobin Hartnell, Mohammad Karami, Lili Niakan, Ali Zalaghi, and Musa Zare. “Preliminary Report on the Joint ICHTO-Oriental Institute Excavations at KS-004 and KS-108 in Lowland Susiana, Southwestern Iran.” Oriental Institute Annual Report 2004–2005: 56–68.
- 2010 Ohtsu, Tadahiko, Kiyohide Furuse, Takuro Adachi, Mohammad Karami, Nojima Hisashi, Yui Arimatsu, and Kana Wakiyama. “Preliminary Report of the Iran Japan Research Study of the Gorgan Material in the National Museum of Iran, Tehran.” No. 21. Annual Report of the Humanities Research Institute. Chikushi Jogakuen University and Junior College.
- 2012 Karami, Mohammad. “A Scene on the Shoulder; Plastic Decoration on a Ceramic Vessel from Chogha Mish.” Iranian Archaeology 3: 29–37.
- 2018 Karami, Mohammad, Musa Zare, Alireza Abol Ahrar, and Saeed Ebrahimi. “Some Reflections on the Temporal Gap between the Jari A and Bakun B 1 Phases in the Marv Dasht Plain, Fars, Southern Iran.” Archäologische Mitteilungen Aus Iran Und Turan 47: 62–74.
- 2019 Pfälzner, Peter, Nader Alidadi Soleimani, and Mohammad Karami. “SOJAS 2015-2018: A Résumé of Four Seasons of Archaeological Survey South of Jiroft.” Archaeology. Journal of the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research 2 (2): 107–24.
- 2020 Mohammad Karami, Hamid Alimoradi, and Nader Alidadi Soleimani. “Malekābād I: Development of an Occupation on the Western Slopes of Jebāl-e Bārez.” Archäologische Mitteilungen Aus Iran Und Turan 49: 77–100.
- 2021 M. Karami, W. Frauen, S. Herdt, S. Faust, A (Re-) Construction from the Archaeological Record, in: T. Schade – B. Schweizer – S. Teuber – R. Da Vela – W. Frauen – M. Karami – D. Kumar Ojha – K. Schmidt – R. Sieler – M.S. Toplak (eds.), Exploring Resources. On Cultural, Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of ResourceCultures, RessourcenKulturen 13: 261–294.
Reviews/Recensions
- 2018 "A Review on ‘AYŞE GÜRSAN-SALZMANN, The New Chronology of the Bronze Age Settlement of Tepe Hissar, Iran. University Museum Monograph 142, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2016, 408 Pages, 238 Illustrations, Cloth, e-Book, ISBN 978-1-934536-834.’" Archaeologia Austriaca Band 102: 261–64.
Books
- In-press "Bolaghi Pottery Workshops during the 5th Millennium BC". Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Archäologie in Iran und Turan, Band 21.
- In-preparation "The results of the archaeological surveys in the south of Jiroft, Kerman from 2015 to 2020".
Book Editor
- 2021 T. Schade – B. Schweizer – S. Teuber – R. Da Vela – W. Frauen – M. Karami – D. Kumar Ojha – K. Schmidt – R. Sieler – M.S. Toplak (eds.), Exploring Resources. On Cultural, Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of ResourceCultures, RessourcenKulturen 13.
- In-preparation W. Frauen, M. Karami, S. Klocke-Daffa, Resources, Networks and Transformations in Southeastern Iran - Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives.