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Marjan Mashkour

@mmashkour.bsky.social

#Archaeozoologist, #Bioarchaeologist working at the #CNRS and the National History Museum in Paris. (#MNHN) Specialist of #Pastoralism of the #Iranian Plateau and #SouthWest Asia.

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Phylogenetic and dating analysis of ancient and modern sheeppox virus. A. 
Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of ancient and modern SPPV genomes with ≥5× coverage, rooted 
using LSDV and GTPV. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are indicated by blue circles; other 
bootstrap values are shown at the corresponding nodes. Clades composed exclusively of modern 
genomes are collapsed and shown as triangles, and branches corresponding to ancient genomes are  highlighted in pink. The grey box delineates the SPPV clade. B. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of 
SPPV genomes with placement of low-coverage ancient samples using PathPhynder (Martiniano et 
al., 2022). For clarity, only the SPPV portion of the phylogeny is shown. Samples are coloured by 
material type, and low-coverage genomes (<5×) placed using PathPhynder are indicated by red 
triangles. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are marked with blue circles; other values are shown at  the corresponding nodes. Tip labels indicate sampling location and calibrated historical date. Host 
species, sequencing coverage, and sample age are shown as a heatmap adjacent to the tips. C. 
Time-calibrated Bayesian phylogeny of the SPPV clade, with samples coloured according to material  type.

Phylogenetic and dating analysis of ancient and modern sheeppox virus. A. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of ancient and modern SPPV genomes with ≥5× coverage, rooted using LSDV and GTPV. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are indicated by blue circles; other bootstrap values are shown at the corresponding nodes. Clades composed exclusively of modern genomes are collapsed and shown as triangles, and branches corresponding to ancient genomes are highlighted in pink. The grey box delineates the SPPV clade. B. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of SPPV genomes with placement of low-coverage ancient samples using PathPhynder (Martiniano et al., 2022). For clarity, only the SPPV portion of the phylogeny is shown. Samples are coloured by material type, and low-coverage genomes (<5×) placed using PathPhynder are indicated by red triangles. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are marked with blue circles; other values are shown at the corresponding nodes. Tip labels indicate sampling location and calibrated historical date. Host species, sequencing coverage, and sample age are shown as a heatmap adjacent to the tips. C. Time-calibrated Bayesian phylogeny of the SPPV clade, with samples coloured according to material type.

Biopathocodicology?? 🦠🧬🐑 (1/4)

Check out this groundbreaking new #aDNA #pathology paper by @louis-lhote.bsky.social @gingerhowley.bsky.social and colleagues!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

26.02.2026 11:41 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 4
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Caprine dairy exploitation on the Iranian Plateau from the seventh millennium BC - Nature Human Behaviour Using food residues on pottery vessels and dental calculus, and faunal remains, Casanova et al. find evidence that Neolithic communities in Iran were milking goats or sheep as early as the seventh mil...

Interdisciplinary bioarchaeological research (lipid residues analysis of prehistoric pottery, faunal and human remains) document Neolithic consumption of caprine milk 9000 years ago in the Iranian Plateau.
@umr-bioarch.bsky.social @cnrs.fr & @mnhn.fr) #LSCE.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

19.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
Meme "change my mind" : un homme avec une tasse de café à la main est installé dans un square avec devant lui une affiche où est écrit "Les bibliothèques du Muséum méritent plus de reconnaissance".

Meme "change my mind" : un homme avec une tasse de café à la main est installé dans un square avec devant lui une affiche où est écrit "Les bibliothèques du Muséum méritent plus de reconnaissance".

Vous voulez savoir pourquoi les bibliothécaires du Muséum sont en grève et en discuter autour d'un café ? Ou simplement nous apporter un peu de soutien et repartir avec quelques tracts ?
On sera à nouveau réunis demain en piquet de grève au 38 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire : RDV à partir de 11h !

13.02.2026 08:55 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

We are so happy this research opens new avenues in the history of domestication and pastoralism on the Iranian Plateau.

09.02.2026 20:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Caprine dairy exploitation on the Iranian Plateau from the seventh millennium BC - Nature Human Behaviour Using food residues on pottery vessels and dental calculus, and faunal remains, Casanova et al. find evidence that Neolithic communities in Iran were milking goats or sheep as early as the seventh mil...

Our Article from @ec.europa.eu MSCA VARGAH project, tracing pastoralism development across the Iranian Plateau, is now published in Nature Human Behaviour!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

09.02.2026 12:31 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1
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The team is back after a 3 week field trip in Pakistan with the MAFBI !

08.12.2025 18:24 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Exceptional organisation of the settlement and a truly beautiful picture.

04.12.2025 18:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Excavations reveal secrets of seasonal pastoral camp in Hawraman Mountains
www.tehrantimes.com/news/521088/...

01.12.2025 20:07 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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.

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.

04.12.2025 18:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The project Agrochrono #ERC funded runs from January 2025 to December 2029

24.04.2025 14:41 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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PhD offer in 14C and archeomagnetism dating of archaeological ceramics - LSCE Description Context We are offering a PhD position at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) between the GeoTrAc and CliMag teams in the ‘Archives and tr...

We are opening a PhD position on the chronology of agropastoral settlements in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands using radiocarbon and archaeomagnetic dating !

Deadline to apply 5th May

www.lsce.ipsl.fr/en/archives-...

24.04.2025 16:02 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
The team of the project Agrochrono sampling one of the sediment core from the Shiraz region in Iran.

The team of the project Agrochrono sampling one of the sediment core from the Shiraz region in Iran.

Sampling one of the sediment core for biomarker analyses

Sampling one of the sediment core for biomarker analyses

One of the sample done, that will be next analysed at LSCE laboratory.

One of the sample done, that will be next analysed at LSCE laboratory.

We are are happy to collaborate to one of the WPs of the
@erc-agrochrono.bsky.social investigating the environmental context of the #Neolithic diffusion eastward through the study of #biomarkers in sedimentary archives from #Iran. Last week sampling at @cerege.bsky.social /IMBE was very productive!

27.04.2025 08:57 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The first communication at conferences about our project was presented as a poster by the PI @emmcasa.bsky.social at the #GMPCA conference this april

27.04.2025 10:48 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Pour mon premier #GMPCA j'ai présenté les travaux sur la chronologie menés sur le Plateau Iranien lors de mon project #MSCA ainsi que mon project @erc-agrochrono.bsky.social

29.04.2025 05:47 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy to work with @erc-agrochrono.bsky.social investigating #Neolithic agro-pastoralism diffusion eastward through the study of #biomarkers in #sedimentary archives from Iran. After sampling at @cerege.bsky.social
Chemical analyses are now underway at @lsce-ipsl.bsky.social! ✨👩🏽‍🔬

06.05.2025 19:56 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The Theme CHRONOLOGY of our project is being presented today as part of the @radiocarbon25.online conference by the PI @emmcasa.bsky.social

01.07.2025 08:34 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

We welcome today a new member of the project. Soleine Riausset joined as assisstant engineer to help with organic residue and radiocarbon analyses of the projet.
Welcome Soleine!

22.09.2025 09:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This week we welcome a new member of the team: Abdé-Samaad Djebbour. He started a PhD on dating archaeological pottery from SW Asia using radiocarbon and archeomagnetic dating. Welcome!

03.10.2025 06:49 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#imwd

22.10.2025 07:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Archaeologists uncover Neanderthal habitation evidence in Ghamari Cave, Iran Iranian archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence of human habitation in Ghamari Cave dating back 40,000 to 80,000 years.

archaeologymag.com/2025/03/nean...

11.03.2025 21:46 — 👍 45    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0
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Late Iron Age and Roman equine breeding north of the Alps: Genetic insights and cultural implications Archeology; Equine genetics; Paleogenetics

Late Iron Age and Roman equine breeding north of the Alps: Genetic insights and cultural implications: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Several members (Azadeh Mohaseb, Thomas Cucchi, Marjan Mashkour) of the UMR BioArch- CNRS/ MNHN contributed to this paper.

22.08.2025 10:14 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia - Nature Screening shotgun-sequencing data from ancient humans covering 37,000 years of Eurasian history uncovers the widespread presence of ancient bacterial, viral and parasite DNA and zoonotic pathogens coincide with the widespread domestication of livestock.

Nature research paper: The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia

go.nature.com/4lh97tr

09.07.2025 17:11 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Degradation of the vegetation in Northern Syria: past and present Introduction It is well known that much of the Near Eastern vegetation is heavily degraded and this degradation is ongoing.  The principal culprits are over-grazing by domestic herds, fuel-gathering, ...

George Willcox (@archeorient.bsky.social). Degradation of the vegetation in Northern Syria: past and present. doi.org/10.58079/12s3n

13.02.2025 08:10 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Fossil insects unveil the Holocene history of a Pyrenean forest The study of palaeoclimates and ancient environments through the analysis of subfossil insect assemblages extracted from Quaternary sediments has become increasingly important in palaeoecological disc...

Today is Friday, the day for publishing posts. Here's a new post by Philippe Ponel, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Écologie Marine et Continentale, @imbe_marseille, France
For more posts: bioarcheo.hypotheses.org

14.02.2025 16:46 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Les vieilles forêts : un héritage bioculturel exceptionnel Les vieilles forêts : des hotspots de biodiversité sur le point de disparaître  Les vieilles forêts, appelées aussi en français « forêts subnaturelles », et en anglais, “old-growth forest”, sont à la ...

V Py, L. Larrieu and M. Saulnier recently published a post entitled “Old-growth forests: an exceptional biocultural heritage”.
@geode-cnrs.bsky.social
@inrae-france.bsky.social y.social
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social
#Old#forests#legacy#archaeology#biodiversity
For more posts : bioarcheo.hypotheses.org

19.02.2025 15:52 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Retour sur la Rencontre Inter-Labos « Archéos en Transitions » Le 15 novembre 2024, des membres de sept laboratoires d’archéologie (UMR 6034 Archéosciences Bordeaux, UMR 5607 Ausonius, UMR 7209 BioArch anciennement AASPE, UMR 6566 CReAAH, UMR 7194 HNHP, UMR 5199 ...

Un nouveau billet co-écrit par 7 laboratoires français pour un partage d’expérience sur le sujet des "transitions"climatique, écologique et sociale en archéologie
@archeosciences.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy
@umr-bioarch.bsky.social
@pacea.bsky.social
@umr5608traces.bsky.social
& Ausonius, CReAAH, HNHP

31.03.2025 09:51 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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La domestication à l'œil nu. Parution de l'ouvrage de J.-D. Vigne (CNRS édition).

07.01.2025 09:37 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Mammouths : plus frais que nature En 2024, de nouvelles momies de mammouths ont été retrouvées et un génome a pu être reconstitué en 3D. Une société annonce pouvoir ressusciter l’animal d’ici 2028. Que sait-on réellement de cette espè...

Voici le podcast de l'émission de la Science CQFD (France Culture) avec R. Debruyne (BioArch) et Laétitia Demay (HNHP).
Enjoy!
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

23.01.2025 08:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Ce que les vergers médiévaux nous apprennent des relations entre les humains et l’environnement « naturel » À l’heure où l’environnement fait l’objet de multiples questionnements et défis, il est intéressant d’étudier les vergers médiévaux comme lieu où se construisent et évoluent les rapports entre humains...

Ce que les vergers médiévaux nous apprennent des relations entre les humains et l’environnement « naturel ». Un article d'Anaïs Blesbois, publié en ligne, issu de la thèse qu'elle a soutenue l'année dernière.
fsp.hypotheses.org/2139

27.01.2025 12:34 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0