Publications on Iran

@book{nokey,

title = {Coming to Terms with the Future. Concepts of Resilience for the Study of Early Iranian Societies},

editor = {Reinhard Bernbeck and Gisela Eberhardt and Susan Pollock},

url = {https://www.sidestone.com/books/coming-to-terms-with-the-future},

isbn = {9789464261462},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-03-22},

urldate = {2023-03-22},

booktitle = {Coming to Terms with the Future. Concepts of Resilience for the Study of Early Iranian Societies. The Iranian Highlands. Early Societies between Resilience and Integration 1},

publisher = {Sidestone Press},

address = {Leiden},

abstract = {The collection of essays in this book focuses on the highlands of Iran in pre-modern times, reaching from the Paleolithic to the medieval period. What holds the diverse contributions together is an issue that is closely related to debates in our own times: crises and how societies in the past dealt with them. We start from the premise that general circumstances in the fractured topographic structure of the Iranian highlands led to unique relations between ecological, social, economic and political conditions.



In three sections entitled “Climate and palaeoenvironment”, “Settlement, subsistence and mobility” und “Political and economic institutions”, the authors ask what sorts of crises afflicted past societies in the Iranian highlands, to what extent they proved resilient, and especially what strategies they developed for enhancing the resilience of their ways of life. Looking for answers in paleoenvironmental proxy data, archaeological findings and written sources, the authors examine subsistence economies, political institutions, religious beliefs, everyday routines and economic specialization in different temporal, spatial and organizational scales.



This book is the first volume of a series published by the German-Iranian research cooperation “The Iranian Highlands: Resiliences and Integration in Premodern Societies”. The goal of the research project is to shine a new light on communities and societies that populated the Iranian highlands and their more or less successful strategies to cope with the many vagaries, the constant changes and risks of their natural and humanly shaped environments.



CONTENTS



Climate and palaeoenvironment



Holocene Paleoenvironmental Change and Phases of Drought in the Iranian Highlands. A Review

Martin Kehl, Babak Rafiei-Alavi, Hamid Alizadeh Ketek Lahijani



The Impact of Climate on Human Occupations in Iran from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age: An Attempt to Link Archaeological and Paleoclimate Records

Babak Rafiei-Alavi, Martin Kehl, Hamid Alizadeh Ketek Lahijani



Evidence of Neanderthal Resilience from Forty-five to Thirty-nine Thousand Years Ago at the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, Kermanshah, Zagros Highlands

Saman Heydari-Guran, Nemat Hariri, Martin Kehl, Samran Asiabani, Faramarz Azizi, Elham Ghasidian



Water Stress and Imperial Politics in the Southern Zagros Mountains: An Interdisciplinary Approach in Long-Term Perspective

Andrea Ricci, Silvia Balatti, Elodie Brisset, Morteza Djamali, Abdolmajid Naderi Beni, Ahmad Azadi, Pejman Firoozbakhsh



Settlement, subsistence and mobility



Resilience in Practice: A View from the Kura-Araxes Cultural Tradition in Iran

Sepideh Maziar



Reaching the Breaking Point? Developments in the Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age Varamin Plain

Susan Pollock, Morteza Hessari, Reinhard Bernbeck



The Bronze and Iron Age of Mazandaran (3200–1000 BCE): Resilience and Cultural Adaptability

Hassan Fazeli Nashli, Mojtaba Safari, Yunshi Huang, Zhenhua Deng, Hadi Davoudi, Xiaohong Wu



The Environmental Limitations for the Pastoral-Nomadic Way of Life in the Karadagh Highlands of Northwestern Iran: Evidence from the Iron Age I-II and Modern Times

Bahram Ajorloo



Political and economic institutions



Second-Year Cows for Manlari. Elamite State Investment in Cattle Husbandry in the Southern Zagros Mountains

Azam Rayat and Walther Sallaberger



Coping with Problems of Mining: Approaching Resilience Strategies through the Study of Resource-Scapes in the Iranian Highlands

Thomas Stöllner



Imperial Control and Highland Resilience in the Parthian Zagros

Michael Brown and Shelir Amelirad



Resilience in Centralized State Systems. The Persepolis Fortification Archive and Achaemenid Institutional Longevity

Wouter F. M. Henkelman, Kai Kaniuth, Kourosh Mohammadkhani



Prestigious Building and Urban Development in Ilkhanid Iran: The Rabʿ-i Rashīdī in Tabrīz as an Example of Resilience and Vulnerability in a Long-Term Perspective

Birgitt Hoffmann, Lorenz Korn, Thomas Lorain, Jonas Elbers, Maryam Moeini



Dynamics of Development and Resilience in Western Fars: The Bozpar Valley

Stefan R. Hauser, Giuseppe Labisi, Elnaz Rashidian},

keywords = {Administration, Economy, Environmental conditions, Institutions, Integration, Mobility, Resilience, Resources, Settlement and subsistance systems, Structure development},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {book}

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@book{nokey,

title = {Tod im Salz. Eine archäologische Ermittlung in Persien},

editor = {Thomas Stöllner and Abolfazl Aali and Natascha Bagherpour Kashani},

url = {https://bergbaumuseum-shop.de/Tod-im-Salz-Eine-archaeologische-Ermittlung-in-Persien-Begleitbuch-Katalog-und-Graphic-Novel},

isbn = {978-3-96176-141-8},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-16},

urldate = {2020-12-16},

publisher = {Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag & Media GmbH},

abstract = {Since the first discoveries in 1993 bodies or body-parts of eight humans have been discovered at the salt-mine of Douzlākh at Chehrābād. These bodies allow a reconstruction of their lives as workers during the different operation periods. By involving many different scientific fields, it became possible to investigate their palaeo-medical aspects, their diet and their health status as well the causes of their

death and their involvement into different aspects of the mining operation and logistics of the mine. It is possible not only to reconstruct three different catastrophes during the Achaemenid, the early and the late Sasanian times but also to understand the social aspects of the working people. The Achaemenid miners certainly came from abroad but already stayed a while in the region, apart from the young miner no. 4 who seems to have arrived shortly before the catastrophe. This group of migrants possibly were sent within a “bandaka”, an Achaemenid labour duty. The Sassanian miners partly came from a “regional” background but also came shortly before their deaths. Saltman 1 is interesting as he is an older individual who possibly had a special role within the miners. Mining at Douzlakh was predominantly operated in periods of strong centralized political systems when governmental activities could be organized over longer distances.},

keywords = {Achaemenid, Administration, Bronze Age, Chalcolithic, Institutions, Iron Age, Islamic era, Minerals, Mining, Mobility, Neolithic, Salt, Sasanian, Zanjan},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {book}

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