| Description |
1 online resource (290 p.) |
| Series |
The Iranian Highlands Series ; v.1 |
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The Iranian Highlands Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Resilience as an Approach to Lifeways in the Iranian Highlands: An Introduction -- Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck, Gisela Eberhardt -- Climate and palaeoenvironment -- Holocene Paleoenvironmental Change and Phases of Drought in the Iranian Highlands. A Review -- Martin Kehl, Babak Rafiei-Alavi, Hamid 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 ecol |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Pollock, Susan
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Eberhardt, Gisela
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| ISBN |
9789464261479 |
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9464261471 |
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