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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…

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…

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…

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 couple of documentaries on farms visit to collect milk samples A documentary on géoarcaheological prospections A documentary on our visit to the Pai Forest A documentary on…

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…

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.