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Samara Broglia de Moura

École Pratique des Hautes Études

Presentation

I am archaeologist and specialist of the Himalayas. Since 2015, I have been carrying out research on ceramic productions in the Himalayas and on diachronic high-mountain peopling dynamics. The aim of this research is to propose new chronologies for the region, which are still lacking, and to understand the material and cultural interactions that Himalayan societies have maintained with its neighbors in Central Asia, Tibet and India overtime.

Since 2011, I have taken part in several archaeological expeditions to excavate or study ceramic material: in Nepal (Mustang region), India (Ladakh and Spiti valley), Afghanistan (Mes Aynak site), Uzbekistan (Kuduk Bulak, Termez and Romitan sites) and Turkmenistan (Ulug Dépé site). I also work with the French-Indian Archaeological Mission in the Indian Himalayas since 2015.

I have also been involved in various research projects as a research assistant  at the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA), and with the Franco-Turkmen Archaeological Mission in Turkmenistan (MAFTur) and as part of the Emergence(s) project directed by Laurianne Bruneau (EPHE): “Archaeology of the Himalayas: material culture and networks of the past”.

I am currently co-director of the Mission Archéologique Franco-Népalaise au Mustang (MAFNAM) co-funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, and I work as deputy operation manager in archaeology and regional director for Central and South Asia at Eveha International.

Research thematics

  • Himalayan ceramic productions
  • Diachronic peopling dynamics in the Himalayas
  • Material and cultural interactions (Himalayas, Tibet, India, Central Asia)
  • High mountain circulation routes
  • Ladakh archaeology (India)
  • Mustang archaeology (Nepal)
  • Ethnoarchaeology of Himalayan potters
  • Central Asia archaeology

CRCAO research programmes

External research programmes

Teachings

Publications (HAL Archive Ouverte)

  • Laurianne Bruneau, Samara Broglia de Moura. Le Ladakh, carrefour himalayen au coeur de l'Asie. Archéologia, 2023, 625, pp.44-51. ⟨hal-04267439⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. Preliminary field notes on the ancient ceramics of Ladakh. Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 2020, ⟨10.4000/emscat.4191⟩. ⟨hal-03054201⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. L'archéologie de l'ouest himalayen au Ier millénaire de notre ère : dynamiques de peuplement, interactions matérielles et routes de communication . Seminaire EHESS: Archéologie de l'Asie centrale au 1er millénaire de notre ère, Etienne de la Vaissière, Jan 2026, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05604829⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. New archaeological data on the extension of the Kushan empire and post-Kushan groups in the Himalayan range. The Gandhāra Corpora Project Lecture Series, University of Ghent, Apr 2026, Ghent, Belgium. ⟨hal-05604856⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. Ceramic productions in Mustang district (Nepal). 27th Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), University of Ghent, Jul 2026, Ghent, Belgium. ⟨hal-05723579⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura, Abdul Hameed. Archaeology of Tibet and the Himalayas II: current research and further perspectives (Panel). 17th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS 2026), International Association for Tibetan Studies, Aug 2026, Katmandou, Nepal. ⟨hal-05723585⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura, Marion Poux. New research perspective in the Western Himalayas: French-Nepali Archaeological Mission in Mustang (Nepal). 17th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS 2026), International Association for Tibetan Studies, Aug 2026, Katmandou, Nepal. ⟨hal-05723583⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. Western Himalayas in the 1st millennium CE: material interactions and circulation roads. 2nd International conference on Trans-Himalayan Borderlands: Dynamics of Connectivity, Culture and Change, University of Kashmir, Feb 2025, Srinagar, India. ⟨hal-04979254⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura, Marion Poux. New research perspective in the Western Himalayas : French-Nepali Archaeological Mission in Mustang (Nepal). 26th Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Sep 2024, Leipzig, Germany. ⟨hal-04711950⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. Material and cultural interactions between the Himalayas and Central Asia at the Early Historical Period (3rd BC to 8th century AD): new data from Ladakh (India). Interpreting Afghanistan: Art, Archaeology and History of Central Eurasia (600 BCE-999CE), Oct 2022, Californie, United States. ⟨hal-03814729⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura, Marion Poux. Archaeology of Tibet and the Himalayas: current research and further perspectives (Panel). 16th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Jul 2022, Prague, Czech Republic. ⟨hal-03373012⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. Late Iron Age in Ladakh and Western Himalayas: the transformation of the corded ware culture. 16th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Jul 2022, Prague, Czech Republic. ⟨hal-03655694⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. Transformation of the ceramic production in Ladakh from Protohistory onward: a technological and typological approach. Crafts and craft traditions in Tibetan architecture at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Jun 2021, Vienne, Austria. ⟨hal-03262228⟩

  • Jonathan Ethier, Samara Broglia de Moura. Session 379 - The Interaction between Nomadism and Sedentism An Approach through Religious Practices and Beliefs. 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA 2021), Sep 2021, Kiel, Germany. ⟨hal-03180329⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. The cultural and technical transformation of Ladakhi society through the ceramic production lens. Winter School: Tibetanness outside Tibet, Nov 2021, Strasbourg, France. ⟨hal-03437355⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. Les interactions matérielles et culturelles entre le Ladakh et l'Asie centrale du 3e av. au 8e siècle d.n.è : les nouvelles données céramiques de la vallée de Dras, Ladakh.. Séminaire de la Société Européenne pour l'Étude des Civilisations de l'Himalaya et de l'Asie Centrale (SEECHAC), Feb 2021, Paris, France. ⟨hal-03180322⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. New Research on the Ancient Ceramics from Ladakh (Northern India). 11th Seminar of the International Convention of Asian Scholar (ICAS), Jul 2019, Leiden, Netherlands. ⟨hal-03083637⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. Ceramic production in Ladakh before the conquest of the Tibetan Empire. 15th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS), Jul 2019, Paris, France. ⟨hal-03083638⟩

  • Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento, Nicolas Engel, Samara Broglia de Moura. Mes Aynak (Afghanistan), Following up with the analysis of the archaeological data from the excavations. 24th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), Jul 2018, Naples, Italy. ⟨halshs-02431370⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. New Researches on the Painted Pottery of Ladakh. 18th Colloquium of the International Association for Ladakh Studies, May 2017, Bedlewo, Poland. ⟨hal-03083639⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. The cultural and material partition of Ladakh during the 1st millennium CE: new insides from ceramic material . Nicola Schneider; Carmen Brandt. Tibetanness outside Tibet. Perspectives from South Asia and beyond, Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, In press. ⟨hal-05723587⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura, Marion Poux. Du nouveau sur l'archéologie népalaise. 2025. ⟨hal-04977351⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura, Marion Poux. Mustang : Mission Archéologique Franco-Népalaise au Mustang (MAFNAM). 2023. ⟨hal-04181464⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura, Marion Poux. Rapport préliminaire des activités de la Mission Archéologique Franco-Népalaise au Mustang : campagne 2025. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires Etrangères - Commission consultative des recherches archéologiques à l’étranger. 2025. ⟨hal-05409803⟩

  • Mélanie Jouet, Julie Anctil, Judikael Arnoux-Dougnac, Marie-Camille Arqué, Samara Broglia de Moura, et al.. Cour-Cheverny (Loir-et-Cher), 1 place Victor Hugo. Évolution d'un site dans le bourg de Cour-Cheverny depuis la Protohistoire jusqu'à nos jours.. [Rapport de recherche] Service régional de l'Archéologie Centre-Val-de-Loire. 2024, pp.490. ⟨hal-05216618⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura, Marion Poux, Antoine Darchambeau. Rapport préliminaire des activités de la Mission Archéologique Franco-Népalaise au Mustang : campagne 2024. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires Etrangères; Archéologie et Sciences de l'Antiquité; Eveha International. 2024. ⟨hal-04929466⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura, Marion Poux, Antoine Darchambeau, Zafar Iqbal. Rapport préliminaire des activités de la Mission Archéologique Franco-Népalaise au Mustang : campagne 2023. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères. 2023. ⟨hal-04600816⟩

  • Laurianne Bruneau, Chamsia Sadozaï, Samara Broglia de Moura, Martin Vernier, Nithya Rajendran. Franco-Indian Archaeological Mission in Ladakh (India). Activity report 2018. [Research Report] MAFIL Archaeological Reports Series n°6, Advisory Commission for Archaeological Research Abroad, French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs. 2018. ⟨halshs-03039625⟩

  • Laurianne Bruneau, Chamsia Sadozaï, Samara Broglia de Moura, Martin Vernier, Nithya Rajendran. Mission Archéologique Franco-Indienne au Ladakh. Rapport d'activité 2018. MAFIL: rapport d'activités archéologiques n°6, Commission consultative des recherches archéologiques françaises à l’étranger, Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires Etrangères. 2018. ⟨hal-04220403⟩

  • Laurianne Bruneau, Martin Vernier, Stella Bickelmann, Samara Broglia de Moura, Marion Poux. Mission Archéologique Franco-Indienne au Ladakh. Rapport d'activités 2016. MAFIL: rapport d'activités archéologiques n°4, Commission consultative des recherches archéologiques françaises à l’étranger, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères. 2017. ⟨halshs-05250149⟩

  • Laurianne Bruneau, Martin Vernier, Stella Bickelmann, Samara Broglia de Moura, Marion Poux. Franco-Indian Archaeological Mission in Ladakh. Report: fieldwork 2016. MAFIL Archaeological Reports Series n°4, Advisory Commission for Archaeological Research Abroad, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2016. ⟨halshs-01783944v2⟩

  • Martin Vernier, Laurianne Bruneau, Joël Suire, Samara Broglia de Moura, Rachel Silveston. Franco-Indian Archaeological Mission in Ladakh. Report: fieldwork 2015. [Research Report] MAFIL Archaeological Reports Series n°3, Advisory Commission for Archaeological Research Abroad, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2015. ⟨hal-03669086⟩

  • Martin Vernier, Laurianne Bruneau, Joël Suire, Samara Broglia de Moura, Rachel Silveston. Mission Archéologique Franco-Indienne au Ladakh. Rapport: saison 2015. MAFIL: rapport d'activités archéologiques n°3, Commission consultative des recherches archéologiques françaises à l’étranger, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères. 2015. ⟨halshs-04207790⟩

  • Samara Broglia de Moura. Les productions céramiques du Ladakh (nord de l’Inde) : interactions matérielles et culturelles entre l’Asie centrale, l’Inde et le Tibet de la Protohistoire (3e-2e millénaires av.n.è.) à la dynastie Namgyal (16e-19e siècles d.n.è.). Archéologie et Préhistoire. Université PSL, 2022. Français. ⟨NNT : ⟩. ⟨tel-03928773⟩

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