Aylar Abdolahzedah

PhD, Anthropology

Birthplace: iran
Hometown: Tehran
aylarabd@sas.upenn.edu
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2016-22 Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
2010 M.A., University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran. Major: Archaeology, Minor: Prehistoric Archaeology
2007 B.A., University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Major: Archaeology, Minor: Humanities

2020-22 Junior Fellow of the Louis J. Kolb Society, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2020-22
2020 National Science Foundation, DDRIG: Archaeology, BCS-2029098
2018 Greenewalt Fund, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
2017 Summer Field Funds, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
2016 Summer Field Funds, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
2015-20 Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

Understanding Variability in the Frequency of Fire Use in the Archaeological Record of Late Pleistocene Europe and Middle East.
Experimental Archaeology: heat-fracturing, frost-weathering, and flake formation experiment.

Analyzing lithic collections and fieldwork