arjan Mashkour received her Ph.D. in zooarchaeology in Paris (2001) and is a member of CNRS. She is the first Iranian to specialize in the field of zooarchaeology and has been engaged in many field and laboratory projects in Iran and the Near East.

2010 Mashkour, M., J. Chahoud and A. Mahforouzi Faunal remains from the Epi-Paleolithic site of Komishan Cave and its dating, preliminary results, Iranian Archaeology, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 32-37, Tehran (download) Jaubert, J., F. Biglari, R, Crassard, M. Mashkour, W. Rendu et S. Shidrang Paléolithique moyen récent de la grotte de Qaleh Bozi 2 (Esfahan, Iran): premiers résultats de la campagne 2008, Iranian Archaeology, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 21-31, Tehran 2009 Mashkour, M., H. Monchot, E. Trinkaus, J-L. Reyss, F. Biglari, S. Bailon, S. Heydari, K. Abdi Carnivores and their prey in the Wezmeh Cave (Kermanshah, Iran): A Late refuge in the Zagros, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 19-6 (download) Biglari F, M. Javeri, M. Mashkour, Y. Yazdi, S. Shidrang, M. Tengberg, and K. Taheri and J. Darvish Test excavations at the Middle Paleolithic sites of Qaleh Bozi, Southwest of Central Iran, A preliminary report, In: M. Otte, F. Biglari, and J. Jaubert (eds), Iran Palaeolithic. pp. 29-38, Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP, Lisbonne, Vol. 28, BAR International Series 1968. Jaubert. J. F. Biglari, J. Bordes, L. Bruxelles, V. Mourre, S. Shidrang, R. Naderi, M. Maskour, B. Maureille, J-B. Mallye, Y. Quinif, W. Randu and V. Laroulandie The Middle Paleolithic occupation of Mar Tarik, a new Zagros Mousterian site, In: M. Otte, F. Biglari, and J. Jaubert (eds), Iran Palaeolithic. pp. 7-27, Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP, Lisbonne, Vol. 28, BAR International Series 1968. 2008 Trinkaus E, F. Biglari, M. Mashkour, H. Monchot, J-L. Reyss, H. Rougier, S. Heydari, K. Abdi. Late Pleistocene Human Remains from Wezmeh Cave, western Iran. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.135(4):371-80 2007 Biglari F, Jahani, V.; Mashkour, M.; Argant, A.; Shidrang, S.; and Taheri, K. Darband Cave: New Evidence for Lower Paleolithic occupation at Western Alborz Range, Gilan. Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History 41:30-37. (In Persian, with an English abstract.) Otte, M., F. Biglari, D. Flas, S. Shidrang, N. Zwyns, M. Mashkour, R. Naderi, A. Mohaseb N. Hashemi, J. Darvish, & V. Radu The Aurignacian in the Zagros region: new research at Yafteh Cave, Lorestan, Iran, Antiquity 81:82-96 Taheri. K, M. Mashkour, F. Biglari and A. Moradi Nezhad Zilou Cave: A Karstic Shaft with Animal Bones at Kermanshah Region, Western Iran, Proceedings of the 11th Symposium of the Geological Society of Iran, Pp.3340-3348, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad 2006 Mashkour, M. (Ed.) Equids in Time and Space, Proceeding of the 9th ICAZ Conference, Oxford, Oxbow Books. 240 p. ISBN 1842171194 Mashkour M. Véra Eisenmann and the Equid osteological research, in Mashkour ed. Equids in Time and Space. Proceeding of the 9th ICAZ Conference, Oxford, Oxbow Books 1-9. Mashkour, M. Faunal Remains from Tol-e Nurabad and Tol-e Spid, in Potts, D.T. and Roustaei (eds), The Mamasani Archaeological Project Stage One: A report on the first two seasons of the ICAR - University of Sydney expedition to the Mamasani District, Fars Province, Iran, ICAR, Tehran: 135-146. Mashkour M. with Mohaseb A. and Debue K. Towards a specialized subsistence economy in the Marvdasht Plain. Preliminary zooarchaeological analysis of Mushki, Jari B, Jari A and Bakun A and B. in Alizadeh (ed) with contributions of M. Kimiaie, M. Mashkour and N. Miler The Origins of State Organizations in Prehistoric Highland Fars, Excavations atT all-e Bakun. Oriental Institut Publications 128, Chicago. Illinois. Pp. 101-105. 2005 Mashkour M. Animal exploitation of the lowland pastures of Guilan (Iran) during the Iron Age. A preliminary archaeozoological study of Jalaliyeh Kaluraz. In Ohtsu T., Nokandeh, J. and Yamauchi, K. Preliminary Report of the Iran Japan Joint Expedition to Gilan, Fourth Season., ICHTO and MECCJ Tehran & Tokyo, pp. 96-108 Buitenhuis H. Martin L. Choyke A., M., Mashkour M. and Bartoziewics L., (eds.). Archaeozoology of the Near East VI. ARC Publication N° 123 Groningen. ISBN Eisenmann, V. et Mashkour M . Chevaux de Botai, chevaux récents et autres possibles souches de la domestication Gardeisen A. (ed) Les équidés dans le monde méditerranéen antique. Actes du colloque d'Athènes 26-28 novembre 2003 Monographies d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne. pp. 41-49. Fernández H., Taberlet P., Mashkour M. and Luikart, G. Assessing the origin and diffusion of domestic goats using ancient DNA. In : Jean-Denis Vigne, Daniel Helmer, Joris Peters, (eds.) New methods and the first steps of mammal domestication. Oxford, Oxbow Books,p. 50-54. Luickart G. Fernandez, H., Mashkour, M., Tabelet, P. Origins and Diffusion of Domestic Goats Inferred from DNA Markers Example Analyses of mtDNA, Y Chromosome, and Microsatellites. In : Melinda A. Zeder, Deena Decker-Walters, Dan Bradley, and Bruce D. Smith (eds.) Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms, Smithsonian Institution 294-306. Mashkour, M., Bocherens, H., and Moussa, I. Long distance movement of sheep and goats of Bakhtari nomads tracked with intra-tooth variations of stable isotopes (13C and 18O), pp. 113-124, in Davies, J., Fabis, M., Mainland, I., Richards, M. and Thomas, R. (eds.), Diet and health in past animal populations: current research and future directions. Oxford, Oxbow Books pp. 113-124. (download) Monchot H., Mashkour, M., Vigne J.-D. Kernell Smoothing and mixture analyses for the study of Neolithic and Modern faunal assemblage. In : Jean-Denis Vigne, Daniel Helmer, Joris Peters, (eds.) New methods and the first steps of mammal domestication. Oxford, Oxbow Books pp 55-60. 2004 Mashkour. M. Paleo-environmental studies in Sialk (Kashan). In Malek Shahmirzadi (sous dir.), The Silver Smith of Sialk, Report N°2, ICHTO. pp.189-194. (en persan) Mashkour M. Preliminary report of archaeozoological studies of the third season of the Sialk Reconsideration Project. In Malek Shahmirzadi (sous dir), The potters of Sialk, Report N°3. Archaeological Report Monograph Series 5, ICHTO. pp 95-108. (en persan). 2003 Mashkour, M., Equids in the northern part of the Iranian Central Plateau from the Neolithic to Iron Age: new zoogeographic evidence, in Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation and the Horse, edited by Marsha Levine, Colin Renfrew & Katie Boyle. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 129-138. Mashkour, M., Vila. E. Archaeometrical approaches for tracking ancient Bedouins; a pilot project in northern Mesopotamia from IVth to Ist Millennia B.C. in ThomasHerzog and Wolfgang Holzwarth (eds.) Orientwissenschatliche Hefte. Mitteilungen des SFB Differenz und Integration 4/1: Nomaden und Seshafte- Fragen, Methoden, Ergebnisse. Orientwissen-schatliche Zentrum der Martin-Luther- Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Heft 9, pp. 1-20. Mashkour M. The trends of the subsistence economy in Iran on the basis of archaeozoological studies ; Questions and issues. In M. Azarnoush (ed) The first Symposium of Archaeometry in Iran : The role of the Sciences in Archaeology ICHTO. pp. 17-33 (en persan). 2002 Mashkour M. An introduction to the Archaeozoology of Sialk: A Preliminary report of the faunal remains from the first research campaign at Tepe Sialk of Kashan. In: Malek Shahmirzadi (sous dir.), The Ziggurat of Sialk, Report N°1, ICHTO. Pp.135-142. (en Persan) Buitenhuis H. Choyke A., Mashkour M., Al Shyab A.H., (eds.) Archaeozoology of the Near East V. ARC Publication 62, Groningen. Mashkour M., Abdi K. The question of mobile pastoralist campsites in archaeology:the case of Tuwah Khoshkeh. In H. Buitenhuis, A.M. Choyke, M. Mashkour, A.H. Al Shyab (eds.) Archaeozoology of the Near East V. ARC Publications 62, Groningen. pp. 211-227. 2001 Mashkour M. Paleoenvironmental Investigations in the Qazvin Plain (Iran) in Proceedings of the First International Congress of Archaeology of the Near East (ICAANE -May 1998), Rome. Vol II: 967-982. 2000 Mashkour M., H. Buitenhuis, A. Choyke and Poplin F. (eds) Archaeozoology of the Near East IV. 2 Volumes. ARC Publication 32 , Groningen.. Bocherens, H., Billiou, D., Charpentier V., Mashkour, M. Palaeoenvironmental and archaeological implications of bone and tooth isotopic biogeochemistry (13C, 15N) in Southwestern Asia. In : M. Mashkour, H. Buitenhuis, A. M. Choyke, F. Poplin, edit., pp. 104-115. Archaeozoology of the Near East IV, ARC Publication 32, Groningen. Eisenmann V., Mashkour M. The Osteology of Modern Hemiones. In Fiche d’Ostéologie Animale pour l’Archéologie. Serie B : Mammifères. J. Desse and N. Desse-Berset (eds.), APDCA, Antibes, 49p. 1999 Mashkour M. & Mirmohamad-Sadegh S. Aristote (en Perse) Analyse critique d’un traité d’hippiatrie du 19e siècle, In : Charles Melville (edit.), Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies, Cambridge (Sept. 1995) Part II Medieval and Modern Persian Studies, Wiesbaden, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, pp. 145-153. Bocherens H. & Mashkour M. Mleiha. Etude diagénétique et isotopique des restes de vertébrés In : Mouton M. édit. Mleiha I : Environnement, ressources naturelles et industries, TMO (Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient). Lyon. pp.97-105. Mashkour M. et Van Neer W. L’analyse des vestiges fauniques du fort et de la zone d’habitat de Mleiha (Sharja- E.A.U) au 3e-4e siècles de notre ère. In Mouton M. édit. Mleiha I : Environnement, ressources naturelles et industries. TMO (Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient). Lyon. pp. 121-144. Vigne J.-D & Mashkour M. (Coordinateurs) Les débuts de l’élevage au Proche-Orient. Paléorient 25/2. CNRS édit. 1998 Mashkour M. The subsistence Economy in the Rural Community of Geoktchik Depe in Southern Turkmenistan; Preliminary Results of the Faunal Analysis. In : Buitenhuis H., Bartosiewicz L. & Choyke A. M. édit. Archaeozoology of the Near East III, ARC Publication, Groningen. pp 200-220. Mashkour M., Rodriguez Loredo C. & Pellé E. Les premiers témoins ostéoarchéologiques de la Guyane française In S. Vacher, S. Jérémie, J. Briand (editors) Amérindiens du Sinnamary (Guyane), Archéologie en forêt équatoriale, DAF (Documents Archéologie Française) N° 70, Maisons des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, pp. 102-105. Mashkour M. & Yaghmayi E. Faunal Remains from Tappeh Hessar (Iran); Results of the 1995 excavation, Proceedings of XIII IUSPP Congress- Forli (sept. 1996). Vol I. Section 3 « Palaeoecology » pp. 543-551. 1997 Mashkour M., Le Paradis (Encarts dans le paragraphe p. 15). in J.-D. Vigne (Sous dir.) L’île dans la biogéographie botanique, in Iles, vivre entre ciel et mer, Nathan édit, Paris. 1994 Mashkour M. Bilan des études archéozoologiques en Iran, Miras-e-Farhangui (publication de l'Organisation National du Patrimoine Culturel (IRAN) N° spécial Vol. 2, Actes du Premier symposium d'archéologie iranienne après la Révolution- Suse, 14-17 avril 1994 (en Persan).