Menu
A starting assumption of the SPP 2176 is that the premodern societies of the Iranian highlands were flexible and dynamic, forming ever new social and cultural configurations. The thesis is that this flexibility is specific for these highland societies and resulted from the interaction between starkly changing external conditions and deeply anchored cultural mechanisms for coping with crises of various kinds. The workshop is intended as an approach to a key question of SPP 2176, asking how strategies of resiliency developed in different “highlandscapes” of Iran in terms of economic, linguistic and social patterns and the strength of political-social integration specific to different time periods.
PROGRAMM
05 December 2020
| 09:00 (MEZ) | Log in |
| 09:15–09:30 | Welcome and Introduction Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, Gisela Eberhardt |
| TEMPORALITY OF CRISES | |
| 09:30–09:45 | Palaeoenvironmental Change and Resilience of Dryland Ecosystems
Martin Kehl, Babak Rafiei-Alavi, Hamid Alizadeh-Lahijani |
| 09:45–10:00 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Resilience in the High Mountains of the Southern Zagros: Potential, Challenges and Limitations
Andrea Ricci, Silvia Balatti, Ahmad Azadi, Elodie Brisset, Morteza Djamali, Majid Naderi |
| 10:00–10:30 | Discussion |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| RISK MANAGEMENT | |
| 11:00–11:15 | Adaptability and Resilience of the Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers in the Zagros Highlands: The Case of Khar Cave
Sonia Shidrang, Fereidoun Biglari |
| 11:15–11:30 | Reaching the Breaking Point? Developments in the Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age Varamin Plain Susan Pollock, Morteza Hessari, Reinhard Bernbeck |
| 11:30–11:45 | The Road to Kerman
Wouter Henkelmann, Kai Kaniuth, Kouroush Mohammadkhani |
| 11:45–12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch Break |
| FORMS OF COOPERATION (I) | |
| 14:00–14:15 | Resilience in Practice. A View from the Kura-Araxes Cultural Tradition of Iran
Sepideh Maziar, Reza Heidari |
| 14:15–14:30 | Lists of Cattle and Sheep: State Management of Resources as Resilience Strategy in the Middle Elamite Period (c. 1100 BCE)
Azam Rayat, Walther Sallaberger |
| 14:30–14:45 | Imperial Control and Highland Resilience in the Parthian Zagros
Michael Brown, Shelir Amelirad |
| 14:45–14:30 | Discussion |
06 December 2020
| FORMS OF COOPERATION (II) | |
| 09:30–09:45 | The Bronze and Iron Age of Mazandaran: Resilience and Cultural Adaptability
Hassan Fazeli Nashli, Mojtaba Safari, Yunshi Huang, Zhenhua Deng, Hadi Davoudi
|
| 09:45–10:00 | Coping With Problems of Mining: Approaching Resilience Strategies Through the Study of Resource-Scapes in the Iranian Highlands
Thomas Stöllner, Abolfazl Aali |
| 10:00–10:30 | Discussion |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Limitations of the environment (I) | |
| 11:00–11:15 | History of the Neanderthals’ Resilience Based on Fauna Records in the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter; Kermanshah, Zagros Highlands
Saman Heydari-Guran, Martin Kehl, Nehmat Hariri, Samaran Asiabani, Faramaraz Azizi, Elham Ghasidian |
| 11:15–11:30 | How Kaleh Kub Was Established and Survived From the Fifth to the Second Millennium BCE in the Middle of a Desert
Hossein Azizi Kharanaghi, Masashi Abe |
| 11:30–11:45 | The Environmental Limitations for the Pastoral-Nomadic Way of Life in the Qaradagh Highland of Northwest Iran
Bahram Ajorloo |
| 11:45–12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00–14:15 | Dynamics of Development and Resilience in Western Fars: The Bozpar Valley (Bushehr Region, Iran) Stefan R. Hauser, Giuseppe Labisi, Elnaz Rashidian, Hamid Zarei Khedr |
| 14:15–14:30 | Prestigious Building and Urban Development in Ilkhanid Iran: The Case of the Rabʿ-i Rashidi in Tabriz
Birgitt Hoffmann, Lorenz Korn, Jonas Elbers, Thomas Lorain, Maryam Moeini, Hossein Esmaili Atiq, Bahram Ajorloo |
| 14:30–15:00 | Discussion |
| 14:45–14:30 | Final Discussion
Kick off: Wouter Henkelmann, Thomas Stöllner, Judith Thomalsky |