Resilience of Iron Age Communities on the Eastern Flank of the Zagros Mountains’ Chaîne Magistale in the context of the Assyrian Expansion towards the Western Iranian Highlands

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Florian Janoscha Kreppner
• Subject Area: Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 516470639

The aim of the project is to carry out basic research in the field of the socio-political organization of the Iron Age communities in the central Zagros highlands of western Iran with the targeted processing, evaluation and publication of the already collected data from archaeological field research in the years 2017–2021 and to investigate them in the context of the Assyrian Empire striving for resources and therefore expanding into the Zagros Mountains.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 2176: The Iranian Highlands: Resilience and Integration of Premodern Societies