Frank Hole Author & Editor

Sekandar Amanolahi-Baharvand is an emeritus professor of anthropology at Shiraz University in Iran. He earned his PhD from Rice University, where his dissertation was an ethnographic study of the Baharvand. Throughout his career, he has continued to research and write about the Lurs and Luristan. Previous works include Tales from Luristan (ed., 1987).

Frank Hole is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Yale University. For more than 40 years he has done archaeological and ethnographic research in Iran and Syria, including excavations at Ali Kosh and Chagha Sefid in Deh Luran, Iran. His work has focused on the development of agriculture and animal husbandry. He has previously published Cueva Blanca: Social Change in the Archaic of the Valley of Oaxaca (with Kent V. Flannery, 2019), Studies in the Archeological History of the Deh Luran Plain: The Excavation of Chagha Sefid (1976), and Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Deh Luran Plain: An Early Village Sequence from Khuzistan, Iran (with Kent V. Flannery and James A. Neely, 1969).