1. Jean Perrot was a French archaeologist who specialised in the late prehistory of the Middle East and Near East.
10 Facts About Jean Perrot
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Jean Perrot went on to study at the Ecole biblique et archeologique francaise de Jerusalem in 1945.
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Jean Perrot researched a number of ancient sites in Iran, Israel and Turkey, animating the research at international level.
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Jean Perrot first went to Iran in 1968, a year after the retirement of Roman Ghirshman, to head the Delegation Archeologique Francais and excavations of the country's ancient sites.
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Jean Perrot headed a multidisciplinary team in conjunction with the Iranian Centre of Archaeological Research, including experts from France, Iran and the United States who continued studies until the revolution in 1979.
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Jean Perrot worked on sites such as Susa and Jafar Abad and took measures to safeguard the vestiges of the Achaemenid period.
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In Israel Jean Perrot excavated at Munhata, Ain Mallaha and the Chalcolithic sites at Abu Matar and Bir es-Safadi near Beersheba, belonging to the so-called Beer Sheva culture.
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In 1952, Jean Perrot founded the "Mission archeologique francaise", now called the French Research Center in Jerusalem; a joint research unit of the General Directorate for International Cooperation and Development and the CNRS.
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In 1973, Jean Perrot founded the notable journal Paleorient with Bernard Vandermeersch along with the aid of the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
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Jean Perrot returned to France to become director of the CNRS, which he joined in 1946 and for which he was an honorary research director and correspondent.