ANCIENT - Muséum national d`Histoire naturelle

Training Courses:
ANCIENT SPACES IN NORTH MESOPOTAMIA:
HOW TO RECONSTRUCT THEM?
Paris, Nanterre, 8th December – 20th December
Organized by Dr. Jessica Giraud (Ifpo-Irak)
In coordination with
Pr. Margareta Tengberg – Director of Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Archaeozoology,
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (UMR 7209)
and Pr. Pascal Butterlin – Director of the Doctoral School of Archaeology, University Paris 1
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ORGANIZATION
Training Courses organized by Jessica Giraud (Ifpo-Irak)
INSTITUTIONS:
Ifpo, Paris 1, Museum National of Natural history, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, l’UMR 7041
ArScan –équipe Vepmo et AnTet, Musée du Louvre.
SESSIONS COORDINATORS:
Mme Béatrice André-Salvini
Pr. Éric Boéda
Dr. Stéphanie Bonilauri
Pr. François Giligny
Dr. Amélie Le Bihan
Dr. Marjan Mashkour
Dr. Sophie Méry
Dr. Ariane Thomas
Cécile Verdellet
and the Archaeological French Missions in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The Financial Support has been provided by Ifpo and by The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
through the allocation of the Archaeological French Mission of the Soulaimaniah Governorate.
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8th December 2014
Introduction – Landscape Archaeology – DataBase
Workshop organised by Dr. Jessica Giraud (Ifpo-Irak) in collaboration with Pr. François
Giligny (University Paris 1)
Place : Michelet - Institut d’Art et d’Archéologie, 3 rue Michelet, PARIS : Room 307
10h - 10h30
Introduction
10h30- 12h
Landscape archaeology: Introduction and examples.
14h00-15h30
Archaeological Map: Aims and Methods; examples
15h30-17h30, Labo info
DataBase and Statistic for Regional Studies
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9-10th December 2014
Lithic technology
Workshop organized by Dr. Stéphanie Bonilauri (CNRS, UMR 7041, AnTeT) in collaboration
with two PhD student: Mana Jami Alhamadi and Amir Beshkani and Pr. Éric Boëda (Paris
West University)
Place: Nanterre – Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie (Maison René Ginouvès), 21
allée de l'Université, Nanterre Université, RER A arrêt Nanterre Université - Room
D040 (bâtiment D)
Tuesday, December 9
10h
Appointment at the MAE
10h30 – 13h30
- Introduction to reading lithic artifacts
This training aims to provide the basics of reading and identification of lithic material:
recognition and reading stigmata, recognition of types of stone artefacts (flakes, blade,
bladelet, cores, handaxes, bifacial pieces ...)
This training will be done in two ways: a theoretical axis and a practical axis (manipulations
of archaeological and experimental material)
14h30 – 18h30
- Continuation of reading the lithic material
- Introduction to the lithic drawing
- Introduction to the use-wear analysis (experimental material observations through a
microscope)
Wednesday, December 10
10h-13h30
- Continuation of lithic drawing
- Introduction or continuation of the use wear analysis
14h30-18h
- Knapping demonstration by Pr. Eric Boëda , Reassembly of lithic material
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11th December
Archaeological Day – Space in the Time
Session organised by Dr. Jessica Giraud (Ifpo-Irak),
Lunch offered by Doctoral School of Archaeology of Paris 1
10h30 – 13h00: Room 311
10h30-11h Christine Kepinski: "Settlement trends at the foothills of the Zagros around the case
of Kunara (Upper Tanjaro river, 2400-1900 B.C.)"
11h-11h30 Lionel Marti: "Deconstruction of a settlement system model: the case of the southern
plain of Erbil during the 18th century B.C."
11h30-12h00 Maria-Grazia Rouault: "From Urban Spaces to the Region, and to Imperial
Dimensions: the Case of the Excavations Project in Tell Masaikh (Syria, Iron II Period)"
12h-12h30 Aline Tenu: "Combining textual and archaeological sources: the Assyrian example"
12h30-13h François Villeneuve: "Small, medium and big sites, around the Roman period, from
Southern Syria to the Southern Red Sea. Examples of approaches"
14h – 17h30: Room 304
14h-14h30
Vincent Déroche: "Implantations of Christianity through the Sassanian
Kingdom: network and issues"
14h30-15h
Justine Gaborit: "Mesopotamian spaces from the conquest of Alexander to the
Muslim conquest: geographical and historical dynamics"
15h-15h30
Loïc Mazou: "A case study: the contribution of the pottery findings to the
analysis and understanding of the Bazyan site"
15h30-16h
Marie-Odile Rousset: "Settlement from Late Antique to Early Islamic periods
in the Arid Margins of Northern Syria"
16h30-17h
Alastair Northedge: "Samarra and the archaeology of the Tigris road"
17h30 – 19h30: Room 319
17h30-18h Pascal Butterlin: "Cultural spheres of interaction in Late chalcolithic Greater
Mesopotamia, methodological issues"
18h-18h30 Régis Vallet: "Intra-site spatial analysis; some case studies of mesopotamian urban
planning"
18h30-19h Olivier Rouault: "Qasr Shemamok-Killizu : its Plan and the Changes"
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12-13th December 2014
GPS and GIS
Workshop organised by Dr. Jessica Giraud (Ifpo-Irak)
Place: Michelet, Informatics rooms
Friday, December 12
10h00-12h30
GPS Technology
Theory and practices in the Luxembourg Garden depending on the weather.
14h- 18 h30
GIS with QGis Software
Saturday, December 13
9h00 -12h30
GIS, Practices
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15th December 2014
An introduction to Near Eastern archaeobotany
Session organized by Pr. Margareta Tengberg (MNHN, UMR 7209) in collaboration with the
PhD students of the UMR 7209
Place: Museum national d’Histoire naturelle
Métro Jussieu, Censier-Daubeton, Place Monge ou Gare d’Austerlitz
9h30
Meeting at building 55 (Bâtiment d’Anatomie comparée)
9h45-11h15
Introduction to the archaeobotanical disciplines (seed, wood and pollen studies)
11h30-12h30
Visit to the Botanical Garden and the wood collection
12h30-14h
Lunch
14h-15h30
Beginnings of agriculture in the Near East; development of agricultural economies in
Mesopotamia
15h45-17h
Visit to the archaeobotanical laboratory: observation of archaeobotanical samples and
discussion with the PhD students working on Near Eastern material
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16th December
An introduction to the Near Eastern Archaezoology
Session organized by Dr. Marjan Mashkour & Karyne Debue (Museum, UMR 7209) in
collaboration with the PhD students of the UMR 7209
Place: Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
Métro Jussieu, Censier-Daubeton, Place Monge ou Gare d’Austerlitz
9h30
Meeting at building 55 (Bâtiment d’Anatomie comparée)
9h30-12h30
Introduction to archaeozoology
Introduction of the archaeolozoolgy for the Near East
12h30-13h30
Lunch
13h30-15h
Short training on vertebrate skeletons and identification of animal bones in an
archaeozoological material
15-16h30
Visit to the archaeozoology laboratory and maybe the “Grande Galerie” of the Museum.
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17-18th December
Ceramic Studies
Workshop organized by Cécile Verdellet (Ifpo-Irak) and Dr. Sophie Méry (CNRS, UMR 7041)
Wedesnay, December 17
Place: Michelet, Room 316
8h00 - 11h30
Pottery studies in archaeology – Typology and decors
Theory and observation with archaeological samples (observation, identification and
classification)
13h - 15h30
Archaeological Pottery in Iraqi kurdistan
Theory and observation of Mesopotamian sherd (Observation, identification and
understanding)
Tuesday, December 18
Place: Nanterre Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie, Room 102 f
9h30 -12h30
Technological approach of the Pottery
14h00 - 17h30
Material and studies : Methods
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17th December
Visit of Louvre
Visit organised by Béatrice André-Salvini (Heritage general Curator and director of Oriental
Antiquities in Louvre) and Ariane Thomas (Heritage Curator in Oriental antiquities)
Department)
16h-18h
Visit of the Laboratory in Louvre
18h-21h
Visit of the Mesopotamian collection in Louvre
19-20th December
GIS Practices
Place: Michelet
Friday, December 19
10h00-18h30
GIS Practices
Saturday, December 20
9h00 -12h30
GIS Practices
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