David Sarmiento-Castillo 🔻

@dasarcas.bsky.social

🇨🇵🇪🇨 Archéologue. 🏛️⛏️ Arqueólogo | IR - Laboratoire PALOC IRD MAFBI -Mission Archéologique Française du Bassin de l'Indus 🇫🇷🤝🇵🇰 Personal account ...et aussi IR CNRS au contrat non mis en place.. gelé par décret du PDG 🤷🏻

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

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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