Jean-François Jarrige

Biography Jean-François Marie Charles Jarrige was born on 5 August 1940 in Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France. He studied at the École du Louvre where he was classmates with future-French president Jacques Chirac.

Jarrige was a specialist in Asian archeology, particularly South Asian, as was his wife, Catherine. The couple were responsible for the discovery in 1974 of the Neolithic settlement of Mehrgarh in Baluchistan, which they and their team excavated continuously from then until 1986.

Jarrige was the director of the Musée Guimet from 1986 until 2004, when he was made museum president. He directed a major overhaul of the museum's collection in 2000–2001, reorganizing according to place and time period. Jarrige died 18 November 2014 in Paris following a long battle with stomach cancer.

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Works 1990 - La Préhistoire et la civilisation de l'Indus (editor) 1993 - The Early architectural traditions of the greater Indus Valley as seen from Mehrgarh, Balochistan, Pakistan 1995 - Du néolithique à la civilisation de l'Inde ancienne: contribution des recherches archéologiques dans le nord-ouest du sous-continent indo-pakistanais