#chanhudaro
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.
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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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]
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February 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🇵🇰🤝🇫🇷 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
February 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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

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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)."
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February 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Ce soir à Lausanne :

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

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February 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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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
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Consul Général of 🇫🇷 Mr. Alexis Chahtahtinsky and the Higher Education Cooperation attaché Mme. Sabine Vermillard @svermillard visited the 🇵🇰🤝🇫🇷 excavations of #Chanhudaro.
A team of 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇵🇰 jointly with @SindhGovt worked with interns from different Universities of #Sindh
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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...

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Cette vidéo traite de Pakistan_2020_V2
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February 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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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
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🇵🇰🤝🇫🇷 The 9th season of the excavations in #Chanhudaro 🏛️ is just starting. Kudos to the #hospitality of the people of #Sindh and our institutional partners that make this work possible.
The program is developed in cooperation with @SindhGovt.
Thanks:
@FranceinPak @PakinFrance
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The #archaeozoology program led by @MashkourM at the @Le_Museum is one link in the chain of bioarchaeological studies related to the #ChanhuDaro excavations. In 2023 new excavations in the Mound I are bringing interesting discoveries for the ancient Indus people and ecosystem
February 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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🎉Archaeozoological studies of #Chanhudaro animal bones. Exciting day at the @ArchZooBota laboratory with the discovery of aquatic turtles, #Indus river fish, deer antlers, and a lot of sheep, goat and cattle remains.
February 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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]

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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.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Results from the recent works of the #MAFBI team.
#Chanhudaro #IVC #Sindh #Pakistan @francediplo_EN
@INSHS_CNRS @EASAA_ArchArt
@PC_Arscan
Conference on this link

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February 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
February 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Since 2015 the #MAFBI team, French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin is working in the #Indus site of #Chanhudaro in cooperation with @SindhGovt . The 8th season has ended.

The results are amazing, you will be hearing soon!
@FranceinPak @PakinFrance
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February 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
MAFBI meeting with @Ministerculture #Sindh#Chanhudaro #Indus #Pakistan.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
#Sindh because of its people.

On behalf of The French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin: Happy #SindhCultureDay

Always thankful for your #hospitality
#MAFBI
#Chanhudaro
#HereForHeritage
#indusvalleycivilization
🇵🇰🤝🇫🇷
#Nawabshah #Sakrand #ShaheedBenazirabad
February 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#Sindh because of its people.

On behalf of The French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin: Happy #SindhCultureDay

Always thankful for your #hospitality
#MAFBI
#Chanhudaro
#HereForHeritage
#indusvalleycivilization
🇵🇰🤝🇫🇷
#Nawabshah #Sakrand #ShaheedBenazirabad
February 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM