Project Details
Projekt
Coordination Funds
Applicant
Professor Dr. Thomas Stöllner
Subject Area
Prehistory and World Archaeology
Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Term
since 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 424829690
The Iranian highlands played a significant role in cultural developments in the Near East throughout the history of the region. Its societies interacted closely with neighboring cultures to which they repeatedly developed political and economic ties. From the perspective of Mesopotamia, the Caucasus and Middle Asia, intensified relationships with the Iranian highlands developed again and again, whether through economic activities, migration or political inclusion. From their side, Iranian highland societies were able to integrate these relationships into their own networks as well as to modify or resist them. The highlands and its actors were thereby periodically able to play a formative role in relation to their surroundings and to effect political, economic and social changes. Investigations within SPP-projects shall be based on three fields of research: raw material regimes, institutional relationships and mobility of the inhabitants. Various forms of crisis management and resilience, but also the integrative potential are core elements of these highland societies. These will be investigated and diachronically compared by help of the coordination project of the SPP 2176: The various scientific results shall be condensed by six work packages that range from a data-base and Web-GIS-project, to a joint analytical strategy, a series of works-shops and conferences as well as to an integration of Iranian scholars and foreign fellows to our program. It is an explicit goal of the coordination project to develop and support mutuality with Iranian colleagues and institution in order to develop joint scientific goals and results within the project. In Phase 2, we evaluate the Iranian highlands from multi-scalar, longue durée perspective as a mosaic of landscapes with ecological changes (including climate), middle-term conjunctures, and a short-term history of events. Neither historical-geopolitical nor eco-deterministic perspectives are at the base of this understanding, but rather an integrated view of materializations of practices and the institutional and organizational structures they (co-)produce.
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