First Interim Report, 1993-1999

J.-F. Salles is Research Director, French National Centre for Scientific Research and is now in-charge of the Jordan Branch of the French Institute for Near East (IFPO, Amman). He was Director of Maison de I’Orient Mediterraneen, Lyon until 1999 and in-charge of the French Mission at Mahasthangarh in Bangladesh until December 2004. He has specialized in the archaeology of the Gulf, especially from the mid-first millennium BC to the mid-first millennium AD. His publications include excavation reports on archaeological sites in the Gulf, as also contributions to major international journals.