Aurore Didier

Aurore Didier (born 1978) is a French archaeologist and researcher. At the French National Center for Scientific Research, she is in charge of the ‘Indus-Balochistan programme’, and director of the French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin. Her primary interest is South Asian protohistory, specifically the Bronze Age in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands (3000 BCE) and the Indus Valley Civilization.

Early life and education Didier was raised near Paris, alongside her older brother and her younger brother. She was raised in an artistic environment, with her father being a professional musicians involved in the film industry. Didier spent 15 years doing ballet and other dance styles as an extracurricular. In 2007, she defended her PhD, based on her archaeological work in Makran, in Paris.

Career Didier has worked at sites in Ladakh, India, Oman, and Turkmenistan. The mission resumed its field programs in 2015.

In 2014, Didier was chosen by Catherine Jarrige to head the archaeological program at Mehrgarh in Pakistan. That same year, she received a grant from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications at Harvard University.

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