Books by Benjamin Mutin
U. Franke, E. Cortesi (eds.), Lost and Found Prehistoric Pottery Treasures from Baluchistan, 2015
The outstanding collection of several hundred vessels confiscated by the Pakistani customs in the... more The outstanding collection of several hundred vessels confiscated by the Pakistani customs in the port of Karachi and presented here provides a glimpse into this amazing past and rich cultural heritage of Baluchistan. The sheer amount of objects on the art market is a sad message about the loss of this legacy and underlines the need to protect its treasures from being lost. This book puts them into a cultural and chronological perspective from the Neaolithic through the Indus Period and gives an account of the archaeological research carried out by the German-Pakistan Archaeological Mission to Kalat and the French Archaeological Mission to Pakistan, with a contribution by Aurore Didier and Benjamin Mutin.
Exhibition catalogue presenting 820 objects dating from the 4th millennium BC to the 4th/3rd century BC, confiscated by Pakistani customs in Karachi.
Printed in Karachi 2015, 400 pages, c. 1800 illustrations and images.
Articles and Book Chapters by Benjamin Mutin
Iran, Frühe Kulturen zwischen Wasser und Wüste, Chapter: Ostiran und der Osten in der Bronzezeit, Publisher: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle des Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH, Editors: B. Helwing, S. Annen, pp.90-95.
South Asian Archaeology and Arts 2012. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (Paris, 2-6 July 2012). Turnhout: Brepols.
Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours: Local Developments and Long-range Interactions in the 4th Millennium BC, edited by Cameron A. Petrie, 2013
Cahiers d’Asie centrale “Archéologie française en Asie centrale. Nouvelles recherches et enjeux socioculturels”, directed by Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento, 2013
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Books by Benjamin Mutin
Exhibition catalogue presenting 820 objects dating from the 4th millennium BC to the 4th/3rd century BC, confiscated by Pakistani customs in Karachi.
Printed in Karachi 2015, 400 pages, c. 1800 illustrations and images.
Articles and Book Chapters by Benjamin Mutin
Exhibition catalogue presenting 820 objects dating from the 4th millennium BC to the 4th/3rd century BC, confiscated by Pakistani customs in Karachi.
Printed in Karachi 2015, 400 pages, c. 1800 illustrations and images.
In this article we present objectives and results of the first two field-seasons in 2016 and 2017 of the Bam Archaeological Mission (BAM), a new Iranian-French field research project in the Bam-Narmashir region, Kerman. The main object of this research project is to reconstruct the ancient settlement in this area with an emphasis on its oldest occupation periods between the Paleolithic and Iron Age. It aims to understand how this settlement evolved, to evaluate the influence of climate and environmental changes on this evolution, and to determine its relationship to the archaeological cultures defined in Iran and Pakistan. As such, this research project also more broadly seeks to contribute to the general study of ancient southeastern Iran and to the reconstruction of the major demic and cultural dynamics—the dispersal of peoples, cultures, and technologies—that occurred in this area and across Middle- and South Asia during pre- and proto-history. In 2016 and 2017, we surveyed the region and recorded about 250 sites mostly dating to between the Paleolithic and Iron Age periods. One of the most significant results from this survey is the discovery of two impressive settlements, one dating to the Neolithic period and one to the fourth millennium BC, probably among the highest concentrations of sites dating to these periods reported so far on the southeastern Iranian Plateau. In 2017, we also resumed excavation at the Neolithic site of Tell-e Atashi. We opened test-trenches that have helped us understand its stratigraphy and general organization, as well as the nature of deposits present in various locations at this site. With new radiocarbon dates, we got confirmation that at least a large part of its occupation levels date to between the second half of the sixth and the middle of the fifth millennia BC. This excavation season was also instrumental in the preparation of more extensive excavations that were conducted in 2018. The aggregate of this work produced new data which have confirmed the unique nature of Tell-e Atashi and its significance for the understanding of the Neolithic period in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands.
Keywords: Neolithic, Southeastern Iran, Bam, Tell-e Atashi, Archaeological Survey, Excavation