Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue Volume 3 (Paperback). This item is unavailable.Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue Volume 3 (Paperback)

Since 2007, the conferences organized under the title 'Broadening Horizons' have provided a regular venue for postgraduates and early career scholars in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Three volumes present the proceedings of the 6th Broadening Horizons Conference, which took place at the Freie Universität Berlin from 24-28 June, 2019. The general theme, 'Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue', is aimed at encouraging communication and the development of multidisciplinary approaches to the study of material cultures and textual sources.
Volume 3 contains 14 papers from Session 4 -- Crossing Boundaries: Connectivity and Interaction; and Session 6 -- Landscape and Geography: Human Dynamics and Perceptions.

Costanza Coppini (Dr Phil. Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 2014) is a postdoc-researcher, currently acting as scientific consultant of the World Monuments Fund and collaborating with archaeological projects in Iraq. She has held several research positions at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the University of Udine.

Georg Cyrus is a PhD student at the Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin, researching squatter occupations in the Iron Age of southwest Asia. He studied at the FU-Berlin and at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Between 2016 to 2018 he worked at the Tehran Department of the DAI. He has worked on excavations in Germany, Austria, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Iran, has published the Festschrift for Susan Pollock and organizes the theory reading group of the BergSAS.

Hamaseh Golestaneh is a PhD student at the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her specialty is religion and culture of the Achaemenid empire in its heartland, and how they are linked to the Indo-Iranian, Elamite, and Mesopotamian spheres. Currently, she is writing her dissertation on the Iranian gods of the Achaemenid empire.