Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi

Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi (, 24 April 1940 – 12 October 2020) was an Iranian archaeologist and anthropologist.

Career

Shahmirzadi is the author of over 60 research articles and books. Shahmirzadi's book, Dictionary of Archeology English-Persian-Persian-English, published in 1997, is still in print.

Tepe Sialk is reportedly one of the most important prehistoric excavations in Iran, and a team of Iranian archaeologists led by Shahmirzadi launched the Sialk Reconsideration Project in 1999. Tepe Sialk had been excavated by a team headed by Roman Ghirshman and his wife Tania Ghirshman for three seasons (1933, 1934, and 1937) before Shahmirzadi.

In 2004, the Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency reported that, "Iranian archeologists planned to identify the food basket and diet of the people who lived in the historical site of Sialk over 7,000 years ago," and "Shahmirzadi, discoverer of the ziggurat, [was] head of the research team."

Speaking at the Bolaghi Gorge (Tangeh Bolāghi) Seminar held on 20 January 2007 in Tehran, Shahmirzadi said:

Dr. Michael D. Danti of Boston University's Department of Archaeology thanked "Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi for involving me in his research project at Tepe Sialk."

Bibliography (partial list)

1978, Introduction to Sociology (in Persian) 1994, Fundamental of Archaeology, Prehistoric Iran, Prehistoric Mesopotamia and Art and Archeology of Ancient Egypt (in Persian) 1996, English for Student of Archeology 1996, Dictionary of Archaeology English-Persian-Persian-English 1996, Iranian Houses 1998, History of Early Iran (in Persian); co-authors with Dr. M. Haririan, Dr. J. Amoozgar, and N. Mirsaidi. (Fifth printing 2006) 1999, Prehistoric Iran; Iran From The Earliest Times to the Dawn of Urbanism 2000, Agh Tepe; co-author with Jebraeil Nokandeh 2004, The Silversmiths of Sialk (in Persian) 2006, Sialk, The Oldest Fortified Village of Iran; Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, Tehran, Iran