A hunt for resources? Spatial models in the ResourceCultures at the northern periphery of Mesopotamia (B07)

• Subject Area: Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies ; Physical Geography
• Term: since 2013
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 215859406

The project investigates the essential resources of the northern border or neighbouring regions of Mesopotamia in a diachronic approach. For the third funding period of the SFB, the relations between the resources will be modelled and visually represented by a series of spatial analyses. For this purpose, different methodological tools will be used one after the other and building on each other: Water modelling, soil modelling, path modelling, settlement modelling, landscape modelling and finally the modelling of ResourceCultures.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1070: Resource Cultures. Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Relation to Resources
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Andreas Fuchs, until 6/2017; Professor Dr. Peter Pfälzner; Professor Dr. Thomas Scholten