#MAFBI

@dasarcas.bsky.social

1 week ago

A Stone Bead Production Complex from the Beginning of the Indus Civilization at Chanhu-Daro (Sindh, Pakistan) <div><p>Between 2016 and 2020, a massive stone bead workshop associated to dwelling units was discovered at Chanhu-daro site (Trench 2 and 3) and dated to the first period of the Indus Civilization (2600/2500-2300 BCE). A huge amount of different raw materials (e.g. flint, steatite, agate, carnelian, jasper, ernestite) was processed and debitage wastes of both knapping and cutting activities were identified. Tools for manufacturing, perforating or polishing the stone beads (e.g. blades, drills/borers, polishers, hammers, pressure flaker) -some of them unique and exceptionally preserved -were found together. Several beads roughouts, preforms, and finished products were also documented. For the first time (so-far) contextualized data about an intensive craft production from the first Indus period will be discussed. The evidence found at Chanhu-daro site will help reconstructing the whole stone beads manufacturing processes and investigating the related technical system.</p></div>

A little something about Pakistani-French excavations of
#Chanhudaro.

hal.science/hal-05532331
#MAFBI Mission Archéologique Française du Bassin de l'Indus

#beads #cornaline #carnelian #cornalina #IndusValley #knapping

This article comes from a talk given at #12ICAANE back in 2021.

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Marjan Mashkour

@mmashkour.bsky.social

3 months ago

Two pictures side by side show scened in Fishmarkets. On the left a joyfull fisherman is selling his new capture in the port of Karachi. The picture on the right is showing a man with a wheelbarrow full of fish, transporting this heavy load to be delivered to a wholesale buyer.

Fishing in the Indus.
With the archaeological mission of Indus Bassin #MAFBI, we @Bioarch launched the #Kurhuru project @MNHN Paris and built the first ever modern osteological reference collection deposited @MNHN to identify ancient fish remains of #Chanhudaro, #IndusValleyCivilisation @DaSarCas.

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Elodie Brisset

@elodiebrisset.bsky.social

3 months ago

Soon joining you! We will prospect for new #sediment archives ⛏️🪏🚣 in the beautiful region of #Sindh 🇵🇰…

Many thanks to the #MAFBI and @erc-agrochrono.bsky.social #MAFBI for this opportunity!

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

1 year ago

Last week 🎓Alexandre Houdas got his Ph.D with a dissertation in " Water management in the #IndusCivilization: techniques, environments and societies" Most of team of the French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin 🏛️ #MAFBI made it for the event and were all proud of him🏆

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

1 year ago

#lastbutnotleast for 2024 this program benefits of a complementary mobility grant awarded by @interimpact a partner of #MAFBI since 2022

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

1 year ago

A study of Animal bones and Preservation This documentary introduces the public to the activities of the archeozoology team, led by M. Mashkour, during the pakistani-french excavations at the Bronze Age - Indus Valley Civilization site of Chanhu-daro. Chanhu-daro is the only site in the Indus plain where extended excavations are taking place since 2015 and provides a unique view of urbanism and subsistance patterns for South Asian Bronze (ca 5000 BCE) age archaeology "Dr. Marjan Mashkour is an Archaeozoologist, specialist of the South West Asian mammalian and bird remains. During the past 29 years. She worked in Iran, Irak, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Georgia, United Arab Emirates, Oman. Now she attached with FRENCH ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION IN THE INDUS BASIN (MAFBI). At Chanhu Daro, an archaeological site in Sindh-Pakistan". [D.A. Sheik]

Since 2016, in cooperation with @AntiquitieSindh #Chanhudaro #fieldwork includes trainning for students and professionals. 👀The program is #boosted by @FranceinPak & @CampusFrance thanks to the High Level Research Fellowships awarded through #MAFBI 2/2

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

1 year ago

🇵🇰🤝🇫🇷 The #MAFBI and @ArchZooBota welcome Asma Ayoob Khiljee student at @Aridianvoice and DVM from @SBBUVASPK for a fellowship on the study and curation of archeozoological remains. Research and #capacitybuilding with the support of @FranceinPak #Chanhudaro #Sindh 1/2

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

1 year ago

Zoomorphic terracotta figurines from Chanhu-daro : Mediums of the inventiveness of a culture dedicated to animals "The results presented below come from a Master 2 research thesis. It was carried out at the University Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne (2021-2022) [within the frame of the French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin] . This thesis had multiple objectives : • Establishing a list of Chanhu-daro’s zoomorphic terracotta figurines in order to establish typologies specific to the site; • Detecting any link between zoomorphic figurines and their characteristics, on the one hand, and their distribution on the site and their context of discovery on the other; • Studying the traces present on the zoomorphic figurines as well as their decorations and morphology to understand the modalities of their manufacture. The corpus includes 401 figurines from the Indus Civilisation site of Chanhu-daro (Sindh, Pakistan). They were found during the excavations and surveys of: • MAFBI since 2015; • N. G. Majumdar, in 1931; • E. J. H. Mackay, from 1935 to 1936. They were dated in majority from the first Indus period (2600/2500-2300 BCE), but also from the second Indus period (2300-2100 BCE) and the third Indus period (2100-1900 BCE)."

For those like me who missed this year's 23rd @EASAA_ArchArt conference, here it is a little
something from #Chanhudaro
#MAFBI #IndusValley #Sindh
Zoomorphic #terracotta figurines from Chanhu-daro @SorbonneParis1

hal.science/hal-04743357

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

1 year ago

Ce soir à Lausanne :

🇫🇷🤝🇵🇰 #Chanhudaro #MAFBI #Sindh #indusvalleycivilization

🏛️

mcah.ch/accueil/agenda/

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

🇵🇰🤝🇫🇷
Last week the French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin #MAFBI held it's last briefing meeting with DG of Antiquities Mansoor Kanastro @AntiquitieSindh . The outcomes and perspectives of the join fieldwork in #Chanhudaro we're presented 1/2

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

Honoured to be welcomed by Dr @AzraPechuho.

Thank you for the interest and the community awareness raised towards the work out team develops in #Sindh. 🎉

#MAFBI #Chanhudaro

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

Pakistan_2020_V2 Cette vidéo traite de Pakistan_2020_V2

As we're starting the third week of the 🇵🇰🤝🇫🇷 excavations in #Chanhudaro. Here is a little video of the 2020 season.

#MAFBI

French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin in cooperation with @SindhGovt, @FranceinPak
@PakinFrance, etc...

youtu.be/C-N5mR-PmjA?si…

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

🇫🇷🤝🇵🇰
Honoured to deliver the #keynote at the #TechXchange international conference in @asa_quest QUEST #Nawabshah.

The work of the French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin #MAFBI with @SindhGovt opened up new lines of research and cooperation ( 1/3) #chanhudaro

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

🇫🇷🤝🇵🇰
L'ouvrage sur l'exposition organisée par la Mission de l'Indus au @MuseeGuimet en 1988 est maintenant disponible en libre accès :
🏦🎊...going #FAIR
#MAI #MAFBI #IndusValley #Balochistan #Punjab #Sindh #OpenAccess

hal.science/hal-04379882

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

Thanks to the team the Archives Services of the @MSH_Mondes for welcoming us #MAFBI for a #timetravel though our own history of 🇫🇷🤝🇵🇰 (1947/1958....ongoing)and offering their expertise to Saqib Khan of @PeshawarMuseum and @DOAMKP

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

🇫🇷🤝🇵🇰 Many thanks to the @MuseeLouvre #AntiquitésOrientales for this immersive visit and exchange on research and cooperation with Saqib Raza from @DOAMKP and to the team of @PakinFrance for joining us around the #Indus artefacts 🏛️
#MAFBI @PC_Arscan @CampusFrance @FranceinPak

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

Thank you @Archeonationale for this #InmersiveVisit and support to this 🇫🇷🤝🇵🇰 cooperation

Sharing practices on #mediation #recollection and #archives within a national scope of action. #MAN 🏛️
@MSH_Mondes @PC_Arscan
#MAFBI @DOAMKP @FranceinPak

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

En tant que membre de laMission Archéologique 🇫🇷 du Bassin de l'Indus, J'ai été très honoré de participer à la #8emeRencontreSécurité du @CdCMAE avec notre partenaire @interimpact qui accompagne la #MAFBI pour faire de l'archéologie un vecteur de développement @PC_Arscan

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

The #MAFBI is happy to launch the Scientific Stay of Saqib Raza, from @PeshawarMuseum and @HU_Officials
Thanks to @MuseeGuimet for being the main host with our team and @PC_Arscan in this inmmersive trainning
#PositivePakistan #Archaeolgy #Heritage
🇨🇵🤝🇵🇰 with: @FranceinPak

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

The French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin #MAFBI works under the aegis of @francediplo and @CNRSshs at @MSH_Mondes - @PC_Arscan

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

The #MAFBI work has benefited from the support of this research infrastructure for almost a decade🇫🇷🤝🇵🇰 ... Some of our colleagues and partners in #Pakistan are having a positive impact from it... It is not enough, but it is a good start. #capacitybuilding

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

#Fieldwork has been conducted since 2015 in cooperation with the @SindhGovt .
#MAFBI | Mission Archéologie Française du bassin de l'Indus @PC_Arscan

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

Could we use some resilient knowledge to do something about it...? Traditional culture terraces, cooling chambers, and other water management structures? Archaeology and heritage preservation are also part of the solutions. #PositivePakistan
#MAFBI

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

📣 The #MAFBI presentation honouring #Pakistan is now available online.
👉🇵🇰🤝🇫🇷
Archaeology and heritage can provide #climate resilient solutions

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

New insights on Urbanism and Architecture of the Indus Valley Civilisation - A. Didier Aurore Didier - "New insights on Urbanism and Architecture of the Early Centuries to the Indus Valley Civilisation. New Data from the 2015-2022 excavations at Chanhu-daro.” May 16th, 2023 Dr. Aurore Didier: Chargée de recherches (CRCN), CNRS – UMR 7041 « ArScAn » Archéologie de l’Asie centrale, responsable du programme « Indus-Balochistan » and Directrice de la «Mission Archéologique Française du Bassin de l’Indus» Since the first excavations at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa a century ago, the Indus Civilisation studies have seen major advances that provided new insights into the settlement patterns, urbanism and architectural developments in the Greater Indus Valley. However, crucial questions on the emergence of the Indus Valley Civilization in the different areas of its territory or its internal evolution over the course of about six hundred years (2600/2500-1900 BCE) still need to be answered. One of the major challenges is indeed to better document the urbanism and the architecture of the early centuries of this civilisation, in particular during the first “Indus period” dated to 2600/2500-2300 BCE. In Sindh, this period is substantiated by quite limited field data due to environmental and/or stratigraphic constraints. For this reason, the French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin (MAFBI) in cooperation with the Culture, Tourism, Archives and Antiquities Department, Government of Sindh, resumed new fieldwork at Chanhu-daro in 2015. This Indus Valley Civilization site, considered as one of its major craft centres specializing in lapidary activities, was discovered by N.G. Majumdar (Archaeological Survey of India) in 1931 and excavated by the first American Archaeological Expedition to India led by E.J.H. Mackay in 1935-36. The fieldwork carried out by the MAFBI mission includes extensive excavations and has exposed over 6,500 square meters of mud-brick architecture, belonging to both residential neighbourhoods and specialized craft quarters dating from the first Indus period. This lecture will present these recent discoveries that have significantly challenged the previous interpretive models of the city foundation and layout.

New insights on Urbanism and Architecture of the Early Centuries to the #Indus Valley Civilisation
A conference by #MAFBI team available here:#Chanhudaro #Harappa #Mohenjodaro #Amri

@PC_Arscan @MSH_Mondes @ArchZooBota

🏛️ 65 🎂│🇫🇷🤝🇵🇰 - [1958-2023]

youtu.be/DCZ9SI8SMgE

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

#GilgitBaltistan a year ago.📸 KSN Exploration and documentation led by Zafar Iqbal...and still much to do.. #Heritage #Archaeology #Development #SDGs #MAFBI

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

🇫🇷🤝🇵🇰 #MAFBI @FranceinPak

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

Almost a year after the #floods #MAFBI stills raising awareness on #PakistanHeritage. Here Aurore Didier (@INSHS_CNRS ) at the Assises scientifiques de l'Archéologie with @Academie_IBL
🇫🇷🤝🇵🇰
@francediplo @MinistereCC @PC_Arscan @ArchZooBota

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

Assises scientifiques de l’archéologie française, en France et à l’étranger | Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres Retrouvez tous les détails de l'événement "Assises scientifiques de l’archéologie française, en France et à l’étranger" de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres

📣Le 6 juin prochain la Mission Archéologique Française du Bassin de l'Indus (Dir. Aurore Didier @INSHS_CNRS )participe aux Assises scientifiques de l'Archéologie, en #France et à l'étranger | @Academie_IBL #MAFBI @MinistereCC @francediplo @PC_Arscan

aibl.fr/seances/assise…

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David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

2 years ago

Tired and happy after debating on #Heritage preservation and archaeology of Gilgit Baltistan with the #Hunza architect Kashif Essa and @zafariqbal001 from #HazaraUniversity and archaeologist of MAFBI
#MAFBI | @francediplo
@PC_Arscan @MshMondes #gilgitbaltistanpakistan #ArScAn

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