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  • Presentations 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…

  • Participation at “14C & Archaeology” et “14C & diet” conferences

    This summer, Emmanuelle attended two international 14C conferences to present work from the AGROCHRONO project. The first “14C & Archaeology” conference took place in Niterói, Brazil, from 29 June to 3 July 2026. Emmanuelle presented a paper entitled “Compound-specific radiocarbon dating archaeological lipids in pottery vessels below 200 μgC” on methodological developments in the compound-specific…

  • Collaboration with the 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…