Fiona Pichon
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**My research**
I am a researcher in Archaeology, focusing on the emergence of the first farming societies in the Southwest Asia. My approach is based on the analysis of stone tools to define the interaction processes between technical innovations and social practices when the last groups of hunter-gatherers adopted a sedentary lifestyle and became food producers. I am one of the emerging researchers in use-wear analysis, trained by the world-renowned expert of the discipline (P. Anderson and S. Beyries, French CNRS). The approach I propose has been successfully carried out in my PhD thesis, funded by the Paris-Sorbonne University. For my academic formation, I gained a solid teaching experience in higher education in Archaeology (46 hours of lectures and 234 hours of tutorials at the Paris-Sorbonne University) for which I obtained my Qualification for the functions of Lecturer.
During my first postdoctoral position at the Milà y Fontanals Institute (CSIC) in Spain under the supervision of J.J. Ibáñez (Fyssen Foundation grant), and afterwards at the Tsukuba University in Japan under the supervision of A. Tsuneki (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science grant), I studied various tool assemblages from different Neolithic sites across the Southwest Asia (Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Iran), dated between 10th and 6th millennia. Recently, I joined the international research ‘South-eastern Badia Archaeological Project’, working on the comparison between sedentary villages and the semi-nomadic hunters of the desert kites, in southern Jordan. Addressing these issues over a widespread area, in different archaeological settlements, I will be able to signify the particularities of these productions in a long-term perspective. My aim is to determine whether observed changes are related to an economic specialisation of sites, or to a chronological or cultural diversity.
In the coming years, with the MSCA-funded OBSTRADE project, I will investigate the role of the obsidian exchange networks in the transmission and spread of innovations during the transition to farming. For understanding obsidian trade, the project proposes an original, innovative, and interdisciplinary approach, by analysing Neolithic obsidian tool function and geographical distribution. I will develop, for the first time, a methodology for the study of obsidian tools using high-precision surface texture analysis through confocal Scanning Microscopy in collaboration with J.J. Ibáñez of the Archaeology of Social Dynamics Research group (IMF-CSIC). This work will allow to run a modelling on the use and exchange of obsidian in the SW Asia, by applying network analysis and agent-based modelling in collaboration with R. Toral (IFISC, Baleares University). In addition, I will continue exploring the mechanism of diffusion and adaptation of the Neolithic in the Fertile Crescent and its surroundings (Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Jordan, and Turkey).
Publications
Traces and function: the case of "ergot" blades and proximal notched blades, EPPNB, Dja'de el Mughara (Northern Levant)9th international conference on the PPN Chipped Ground Stone Industries of the Near East, Nov 2019, Tokyo, Japan
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Harvesting cereals at Dja'de el-Mughara (Syria, Early PPNB, 9th millenium): new results through microtexture analysis of sickle gloss7.XVIIIth international congress of UISPP, Jun 2018, Paris, France
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Exploitation of the Plant Environment during the Preceramic Neolithic of Dja’de: preliminary results of the functional study of the glossy bladesXVIIth international congress of UISPP, Sep 2014, Burgos, Spain
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The Ghassanian Techno-Complex, Late/Final PPNB Lithic Assemblages from Desert Kite-Associated Occupation Sites in Jibal al-Khashabiyeh, South-Eastern JordanTracking the Neolithic in the Near East. Lithic Perspectives on Its Origins, Development and Dispersals, pp.327-339, 2022, 978-94-6426-080-9
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L’industrie lithique de Ras-Shamra-Ougarit au Bronze Récent : bilan, mise en contexte et nouvelles approches, 40 années d’études renouveléesMatoïan V. (éd.) 2021, Ougarit, un anniversaire. Bilans et recherches en cours, Ras Shamra – Ougarit XXVIII, 2021
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Utilisation d’outils en silex pour l’exploitation alimentaire et artisanale des végétaux à Dja’de el-Mughara durant le PPNB ancien (Syrie, 9ème millénaire).Astruc L., McCartney C., Briois F., Kassianidou L. Near Eastern Lithic Technologies on the move. Interactions and Contexts in the Neolithic Traditions, 150, 2019
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L'agriculture néolithique à la loupe (série Past and Curious)2020
Other publications
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Dynamiques territoriales en Mésopotamie du nord, du Paléolithique à l’époque modern. Rapport MAFGS 2018. 99p.[Rapport de recherche] Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du développement international. 2018
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