Marjan MASHKOUR

Porté par Emmanuelle Vila - Laboratoire Archéorient-

Responsable scientifique pour Partenaire 2  (UMR7209- Archaeozoology/Archaeobotany)

EVOSHEEP proposes to document how Near Eastern and Middle Eastern societies developed sheep farming and how this influenced their history using a multidisciplinary approach drawing on evidence from different sources: archaeozoology, philology, iconography and paleogenetics from a wide temporal (6000-1000 BC) and geographic scale (Near East and Middle East, the Caucasus). This approach conducted on ancient breeds will be completed by work on modern breeds (sheep with hairy fleece or hair from Lebanon, Iran, Ethiopia) to provide new biometric and genetic reference records more adequate than European races for further scientific research. The originality of EVOSHEEP is to combine morphometric and genetic data from ancient and modern breeds to document the pace of the emergence of sheep breed in the course of the complexification of Near and Middle Eastern societies. 

LABORATOIRE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIÉ (LIA) "HAOMA"

Porteur M. Mashkour et Co-porteur Morteza Djamali (CR CNRS-IMBE UMR 7263)

Porteures : Marjan Mashkour et Margareta Tengberg

In the framework of an ANR project entitled KHARMAN (‘harvest’ in Persian) we aimed at reconstructing past human-plant and animal interactions in the area of Greater Iran. Our approach is based on archaeozoological and achaeobotanical research applied in a diachronic perspective from the Late Pleistocene until modern times. Three themes are concerned: reconstruction of wild and domesticated biodiversity; understanding how agroecosystems adapted to environmental and climatic conditions; evaluation of the impact of agropastoral activities on the environment.