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  • 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

  • Presentation of research theme “Chronology” at the international radiocarbon conference in Krakow

    Emmanuelle presented in early July a poster in the research theme “chronology” at the International Radiocarbon conference in Krakow Scientific objectives, dating methods (14C and archaeomagnetism) and foreseen development are exposed on the poster.

  • Lacustrine cores sampling

    Manon Sabourdy and Emmanuelle Casanova went to CEREGE in Aix en Provence to meet with Morteza Dajamali and Elodie Brisset. Together they sampled lakes and peats cores from the Iranian to evaluate the preservation of biomarkers. After this test trial they will sample to higher resolution on the time period of interest, the ones with…

  • Presentation of the project at GMPCA conference

    Emmanuelle attended the GMPCA conference in Rouen, France from 14-18 April. During the poster session she presented the ERC AGROCHRONO projects, the research themes and scientific objectives!