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 Bayesian modelling are essential to produce robust chronological frameworks, notably for the dynamics of early agro-pastoral communities.
The training course provided an in-depth exploration of the radiocarbon dating fundamentals as well as its calibration. The OxCal software is a tool to establish chronological models, ranging from simple sequences to age-depth models. The lectures and practical workshops addressed how these tools can be applied to a variety of archaeological and environmental issues.
For Abdé-Samaad Thesis, this software will be employed to establish absolute chronologies for sites and archaeological pottery vessels under study. This will help to precise the chronological frame associated with the emergence and spread of agro-pastoralism in South-West Asia.
