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

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  • A documentary on geoarchaeological surveys around Ghazi Shah

    During fieldwork in November 2025, our team conducted geoarchaeological surveys under the direction of Elodie Brisset. Based in the village of Gazi Shah, the team explored the area around the Peyarejo-mari archaeological site and the surrounding mountains. The team visited the Binjo Waterfall, the alluvial terraces of Mount Bith, and Lake Manchar. Samples were collected…

  • In the archives of Mundigak excavations

    This week Marjan, Asma et Emmanuelle look at oasteological collections from the site of Mundigak. The site, excavated inhte 1950s by J-M Casal, is located in Afghanistan. It covers a Neolithic to Bronze Age occupation. A first animal bone selection was made to conduct 14C dating and establish an aboslute chronology of the site. This…

  • Master’s internship offer : Paleoenvironments and climate-society dynamics in the Sindh Region (Pakistan)

    A combined sedimentary geochemistry and molecular organic biomarker approach applied to the sediment core from lake Manchar How to apply Context and scientific objectives This internship is part of the “paleoenvironmental changes” research theme of the ERC AGROCHRONO project, whose objective is to explore the development of agropastoral activities in the Indo-Iranian zone since the…

  • Follow up meeting for AGROCHRONO

    This september 2026 AGROCHRONO’s team met online and at the LSCE to make a follow up meeting. Evryone presented their work based on their specialities. Almost two years after the start of the project the summary is impressive. In between the new excavations, les collections in research units and in museums analyses go on smoothly.

  • Participation at FROG VII meeting (Nancy, France)

    At the occasion of the FROG VII Days, from 6 to 8 July 2026, Soleine and Abdé-Samaad have been to Nancy (France) to present their organic geochemistry results on Neolithic archaeological ceramics from Iran. By analysing the preserved lipids in the pottery sherds, they were able to reconstruct key elements of the diet of ancient…

  • Participation at the 27th edition of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA)

    The 27th conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA) took place from 6 to 10 July 2026 at Ghent University in Belgium. Several members of the ERC-AGROCHRONO project gave presentations at the conference: Benjamin Mutin resums his last excavation at Peyarejo-Mari (Ghazi Shah), Sindh, Pakistan in the framework of the…