Timing the Economic, Cultural and Environmental patterns of Agropastoralism development in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands

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  • Visit of MNHN by the AGROCHRONO team

    In January, part of the AGROCHRONO team, including new recruits and M2 students, visited the MNHN and met Marjan Mashkour and Margareta Tengberg. They visited the laboratory facilities for archaeozoology and archaeobotany at UMR BioArch, as well as the collections from the MNHN, to learn about the professions and daily lives of our colleagues.

  • First field-work in Pakistan for the AGROCHRONO projet with the MAFBI

    The AGROCHRONO project team travelled Pakistan with the French Archaeological Mission of the Indus Basin (MAFBI, led by A. Didier and D. Sarmiento-Castillo). The AGROCHRONO project explores the development of agropastoralism in Southwest Asia, particularly in southern Iran and the Indo-Iranian border regions, with an emphasis on the chronological, economic and cultural links between ancient…

  • Sediment core training before field trip

    Dans le cadre de la 5e édition de l’Action Nationale de Formation (ANF) Carottage, intitulée « Le carottage continental en France : innovations, savoir-faire, fédération et réglementation. Ateliers zones humides et roches », Manon SABOURDY et Élodie BRISSET se sont rendues à l’Observatoire de Haute-Provence, à Saint-Michel-l’Observatoire (04). L ’ANF Carottage est un programme de…

  • Start of Abdé-Samaad’s PhD

    Abdé-Samaad Djebbour joined us to start a PhD under the supervision of Gwenaël Hervé and Emmanuelle Casanova. He will work on the chronology of agropastoral populations by radiocarbonand archaeomagnetic dating of archaeological ceramics. Welcome Abdé-Samaad !

  • Peat core sampling

    Photo d’une des sections riches en matière organique de la tourbière In september after the first test results on the preservation of organic biomarkers? Manon went back to the CEREGE in Aix en Provence. The analyses sher performed identified one peat from the Iranian Plateau as the best candidate. It was sampled further for high…

  • Start of Soleine Riausset

    Soleine Riausset joined the team in september as assitant engineer. She will be in charge of the chemical treatment and analyses of archaeological and environemental samples for organic geochemistry analyses and radiocarbon dating. Welcome Soleine