{"id":891,"date":"2022-07-26T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unterirdis.ch\/wordpress\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=891"},"modified":"2024-07-17T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:05:11","slug":"resourcescapes-in-the-iranian-highlands","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/unterirdis.ch\/wordpress\/event\/resourcescapes-in-the-iranian-highlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Tagung \/\/ ResourceScapes in the Iranian Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

ResourceScapes in the Iranian Highlands \u2013 Water, Wind and Minerals as Factors of Appropriation and Integration, Bochum \/ September 12th<\/sup>\u00a0and 13th<\/sup>, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 days: bad-e sad-e-bist ruz) as well as the degree of aridisation or the varying degrees of available mineral raw materials. These conditions have favoured the development of different but also specific practices with and knowledge-complexes about individual resources within past societies. Everyday practices of resource acquisition and use can thus be understood as culturally integrating latent factors, which in turn have to be examined diachronically in regards to their particular appearance, their temporal representation as well as their effect on subsistence and exchange systems.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the workshop will start with lectures on environmental conditions during the Holocene, discussing diachronic change in living conditions and resource availabilities in the arid zones of the Central Plateau. They possibly have favoured the development of specific technologies, but conversely, they also highlight tipping points that led to the emergence of approving or crisis-ridden perceptions in societies. In particular, the interdependence on water supply, specific forms of herd use and nomadism, wind use, and the appropriation of raw materials are to be discussed in individual sections of the conference each with three to five lectures.<\/p>\n

Sessions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n