The Helmand Sistan Project
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Upcoming Events

November 2023, The Occasional Desert: Sistan in Green and Brown, M. Allen, presentation, American Society for Overseas Research Annual Meeting, Chicago

Recent Events

May 2023, Material Culture of Field Notes, M. Allen, presentation, International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, IL

May 2023, A Seisomtectonic Review of the Impact of the Makran Subduction Zone on the Helmand-SistanBlock: Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan,  S. K. Pezzopane, J.W. Whitney, poster, Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section, Reno NV

May 2023, Submerged Kaluts in Southwestern Afghanistan, J.W. Whitney, S. K. Pezzopane, poster, Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section, Reno NV 

April 2023, The Thousand Year Shrine: Ancient Roots of a Modern Islamic Tomb in Desert Southwest Afghanistan, M. Allen, presentation, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Portland, OR

November 2022, Parthian-era Agriculture in the Sistan Region, Afghanistan, M. Allen, poster, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle

October 2022, publication date of The Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan: Volume 1, Survey and Excavation, W. Trousdale & M. Allen, Edinburgh University Press

April 2022, Visual Sistan: Archaeological Photographs and Landscape Change in Southwest Afghanistan in the 20th Century, M. Allen, W. Trousdale, photographs by R.K. Vincent Jr., presentation, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Chicago

December 2021, Afghan Sistan in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages, M. Allen, Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Series, viewable online 

June 2021, The Temple Inscription at Sehyak, Afghanistan, M. Allen, L. Morris, R. Mairs, M. Zellmann-Rohrer, Hellenistic Central Asian Research Network

March 2021, Publication of Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century, W. Trousdale, Brill

January 2021, Publication of The Helmand Baluch: A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan, G.R. Amiri, Berghahn

July 2020, Ask an Archaeologist: Completing a Long Forgotten Archaeological Project in Afghanistan, M. Allen, UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility, viewable online 

January 2019, Surveying Sistan, M Allen and W Trousdale, UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility, viewable online 
 

Recent talk about the project at the 2022 Society for American Archaeology annual conference.