Workshop: Human Movement and Mobility in HighLandScape Environments, online, April 27 - April 29 2022. Here you can see the programme of the workshop. for further information and to access our workshop webpage:  https://premc.org/hmmh2022/program/ Organisers: Dr. Sepideh Maziar (Goethe University Frankfurt) Dr. Saman Heydari-Guran (Neanderthal Museum Mettmann) Prof. Dr. Barbara Hellwing (Vorderasiatisches Museum der Staatlichen …

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"Institutional Landscape and Empires in Ancient Iran" workshop in Istanbul, Türkyie, July 4 - July 7 2022. Proceedings are being edited; expected print dates: Q1 and Q4 2023. Sessions: Appropriation Conceptualization / Perception Transformation Impact of Empire Here you can find the list of speakers and the title of their presentations. Organisers: Dr. Wouter Henkelman …

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Online event. Timezone: CEST   This is the sixth session of the workshop series "A somewhat different Archaeology of Knowledge". Organiser: Dr. Yahya Kouroshi (Ruhr-University Bochum) Guest: Omid Azadibougar (Professor of Comparative Literature. Hunan Normal University) The Workshop will be held in German. Sign-up and contact: andere.archaeologie.wissen@gmail.com Workshop Flyer (German)  

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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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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