AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity

What is the CECD?

The CECD is an AHRC funded research group dedicated to examining the evolutionary underpinnings of human cultural behaviour, past and present. more>

Research Fellows Profile
Dr Jamshid Tehrani
Research Fellow, Anthropology, Durham University

43 Old Elvet
Durham
Tel: 0191 3346210
Email: jamie.tehrani@durham.ac.uk

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Funding

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Research and Teaching interests

Cultural phylogenies
Spread of rug-weaving in Central and Western Asia
Evolution of tattooing and body ornamentation

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Educational Background

BSc Social Anthropology, LSE
MSc Human Evolution, UCL
PhD Anthropology, UCL

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Associated AHRC CECD Projects (Phase 2):

•	Project B003 The Evolution of Cultural Diversity in Iranian Tribal Populations: Core Traditions or Multiple Lineages?

Associated AHRC CEACB Projects (Phase 1):

•	Project 016 To what extent is culture vulnerable to phylogeny-obscuring change?

•	Project 019 Investigating cultural evolution through biological phylogenetic analyses of Turkmen textiles

Associated Publications - AHRC CECD - phase 2:

•	Tehrani, J.J., Collard, M. & Shennan, S.J (2010). The cophylogeny of populations and cultures: reconstructing the evolution of Iranian tribal craft traditions using trees and jungles..Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B). Vol 365. 3865-74.

•	Bentley, R.A., Layton, R.H. & Tehrani, J.J (2009). Kinship, marriage and the genetics of past human dispersals.Human Biology. Vol 81. 159–179.

•	Tehrani, J and M. Collard (2009). The evolution of material culture diversity among Iranian tribal populations.S. J. Shennan (ed.). Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution. University of California Press. 99-112.

•	Tehrani, J. and M. Collard (2009). On the relationship between inter-individual cultural transmission and population-level cultural diversity: a case study of weaving in Iranian tribal populations.Evolution and Human Behavior. Vol 30(4). 286-300.

•	*Tehrani, J.J. Riede, F (2008). Toward an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions**.World Archaeology. Vol 40(3). 316 - 331.

•	Tehrani, J (2007). The coevolution of craft traditions and ethno-linguistic groups in rural Iran.EHBES 2007 Conference.

Associated Publications - AHRC CEACB - phase 1:

•	Collard, M., S.J. Shennan and J. Tehrani (2006). Branching, blending and the evolution of cultural similarities and differences among human populations.Evolution and Human Behavior. Vol 27. 169-184.

•	Collard, M. and J. Tehrani (2005). Cladistic analysis of Turkmen textiles sheds light on cultural evolution.Mace, R., Holden, C. J. & Shennan, S. J. (eds.). The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach. UCL Press: London. 109-131.

•	Collard, M. and Tehrani, J (2005). Cladistic analysis of Turkmen textiles sheds light on cultural evolution.Mace, R., Holden, C. J. & Shennan, S. J. (eds.). The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach. UCL Press: London. 109-131.

•	Collard, M., S.J. Shennanand J. Tehrani (2005). Branching versus blending in macroscale cultural evolution: a comparative study.Lipo, C.P., M.J. O'Brien, M. Collard & S.J. Shennan (eds.). Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Methods in Anthropology and Prehistory. Aldine Transaction: Hawthorne, NY. 53-65.

•	Tehrani, J. and M. Collard (2002). Investigating cultural evolution through biological phylogenetic analyses of Turkmen textiles.Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. Vol 21. 443-463.