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

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  • Collaboration with musée du Louvre museum

    A new collaboration started with the Louvre Musuem. François Bridey, curator at the oriental ANtiquities departments in Louvre Museum welcomed this April the ERC team ERC Soleine, Manon, et Emmanuelle. Archaeological ceramics from the Chalcolithic period at Suse were selected. Together they performed sampling on objects to investigate the preservation of organic residues. These residues…

  • Collaboration with musée Guimet, National Museum of Asian Arts

    In April, Nicolas Engel and Lise Mesz, curators at the Guimet Museum (National Museum of Asian Arts), welcomed Manon, Aurore and Emmanuelle to view samples from the collections of the Afghan and Pakistani sites of Mundigak and Amri, which were excavated in the 1950s by JM Casal Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (MNAAG, Paris) / Thierry…

  • Discovering Pakistan

    Our collaborator Danish Ahmed Sheikh from Pakistan did a documentary work on our activities on the field. A big thank you to him for this beautiful work. A documentary on farms visit to collect milk samples A documentary on the visit of the “Folk craft museum”

  • OxCal training course – Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis

    As part of the AGROCHRONO project, Abdé-Samaad DJEBBOUR, a PhD student at the LSCE, took part in the annual training course organised by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). The training focusing on radiocarbon dating and Bayesian chronology modelling, took place from 16th to 18th March 2026. Calibration tools and…

  • 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…