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Workshop: Roads and Travellers in the Iranian Highlands

Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg This workshop will explore the theme of roads and travellers in ancient Iran, particularly in highland regions. The focus will be traveller-oriented, paying full attention to the experience of journeying, from biographical, social, cultural, economic, and administrative perspectives. We encourage papers that offer new insights into the various usage of these roads, …

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Workshop: Crises in Ancient Highland Societies

Koblenz University

Crises seem to be ubiquitous today, yet oddly, while some archaeologists have studied collapse, few have focused explicitly on the topic of crisis. Crises entail a recognition of uncertainty as well as a capacity to anticipate troubles of all kinds in order to prevent disaster. Confronting crises involves comparison between a familiar world and an …

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ResourceScapes in the Iranian Highlands

Bochum

ResourceScapes in the Iranian Highlands - Water, Wind and Minerals as Factors of Appropriation and Integration, Bochum / September 12th and 13th, 2022 The Iranian central plateau, just as the entire Iranian highlands, has been shaped by very specific resource conditions in some cases. This affects different weather phenomena (e.g. the so-called wind of 120 …

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