Unforeseeable Futures
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Unforeseeable Futures | Susan Pollock (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | The Iranian Highlands. Early Societies between Resilience and Integration 5 | Englisch | 2026 | Sidestone Press Academics | EAN 9789464271713 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.
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Despite their apparent ubiquity today, archaeologists have seldom focused explicitly on crises. The authors in this book take up the challenge of doing so, drawing on archaeological cases from a wide temporal and spatial range. In addition to identifying crises, the contributions search for the factors that underlie them. These range from climate to disease, environmental destruction, sudden natural events such as volcanic eruptions, and intra- or intersocietal conflicts.
Factors are often intertwined in complex ways that lead to emergent properties and that can neither be attributable solely to anthropogenic nor to natural causes. Coping with crises include rearrangements of ways of life, such as increasing or decreasing mobility, the use of alternative (‘second-choice’) food sources, recourse to intensified or newly developed rituals, demise of old institutions and/or the building of new ones, and small-scale acts of subversion.
This book is the fifth 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.
Table of Contents
Crises – An Introduction
Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock, and Martin Kehl
Characterising crises
Crises of Our Own Making: Finding a Way Out of the Resilience Myth for Archaeology
Matthew C. Reilly
Are Archaeologists Crisis-philic? Exploring the Nexus of Climate Change and Migration
Sepideh Maziar
Politics, religion, and crises
How did the Elamites Cope with Crises? Looking at the Gap between the Middle and the Neo-Elamite Period
Rafiei-Alavi
Is This Burning an Eternal Flame? Political Crises and Dynastic Cults in Southwest Asia during Early Antiquity
Michael Brown
Death at the beginning of life. Medieval and early modern infant burial as response to multiple crises and what we can learn from it today
Barbara Hausmair
Environment and Crises
Climate and Crises: Towards an Eventful and Punctuated Prehistory
Felix Riede
Dehqaed’s Natural Crises and the Challenge of Flooding
Zohreh Zehbari
Fending off Crises with Porosity: Sand, Water and Wind in the Helmand Basin
Moslem Mishmastnehi and Reinhard Bernbeck
Resources, technology, and crisis
Probing Criticality: Sliding Scales of Crisis in Two Highland Societies
Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock, and Jana Eger
On the Edge of Crisis – A View from Archaeometry
Kristina A Franke
Metal and Crisis: Crisis Phenomena in the Production, Distribution and Utilisation of Copper and Other Metals Between the 4th and the Late 2nd Millennium BCE in West Asia
Thomas Stöllner
No Risk, No Neolithisation
Judith Thomalsky and Akbar Abedi
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About the Author
Her recent work has involved much more recent periods, with field projects on sites of the 20th century in and around Berlin. She researches processes of subjectivation, commensality and food-related practices, political economy, and feminist approaches to the past.
She is the author of Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden that Never Was, editor of Between Feasts and Daily Meals. Toward an Archaeology of Commensal Spaces, and co-editor (with Reinhard Bernbeck and Kamyar Abdi) of The 2003 Excavations at Tol-e Baši, Iran: Social Life in a Neolithic Village.
Reinhard Bernbeck is Professor i.R. of Western Asian archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin and professor emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University. His interests include the prehistory of Iran, archaeological manifestations of repression, exploitation and suffering, and ideological dimensions of archaeological practice. He has carried out fieldwork in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. He has also investigated several prisoner-of-war and forced labor camps from the 20th century in Germany.
He is the author of Materielle Spuren des nationalsozialistischen Terrors (2017), co-editor (with Randall H. McGuire) of Ideologies in Archaeology (2011), Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology (with Ruth van Dyke, 2015), Between Memory Sites and Memory Networks (with Kerstin Hofmann and Ulrike Sommer, 2017), and Containers of Change (with Olivier Nieuwenhuyse and Koen Berghuijs, 2023).
Gisela Eberhardt is a project manager for the joint research project “The Iranian Highlands. Resiliences and Integration in Premodern Societies” at Freie Universität Berlin and an editor in the editorial department at the German Archaeological Institute’s (DAI) head office. She holds a PhD in archaeology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was one of the managing editors of Edition Topoi. She is the author of the book Deutsche Ausgrabung im ‘langen’ 19. Jahrhundert. Eine problemorientierte Untersuchung zur archäologischen Praxis (2011) and of the forthcoming chapter “From Deep Holes to the Bigger Picture. A History of Methods in Archaeological Excavation” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology as well as co-editor (with Fabian Link) of Historiographical Approaches to Past Archaeological Research (2015).
Martin Kehl is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Koblenz and studies the significance of climate and humans for landscape evolution as well as the effects of environmental changes on pre-modern societies. He investigates sedimentary archives of past environmental change and human adaptation including soils, loess, lake sediments and anthropogenic deposits. His research focuses on the Late Quaternary and Iran.
He is the author of Quaternary loesses, loess-like sediments, soils and climate change in Iran (2010) and co-editor of Loess records of environmental change (2020), Inside-outside. Integrating cave and open-air archives (2018) and Loess, soils and climate change in Iran and vicinity (2017). Results of his research on the Quaternary of Iran are also published in a large number of co-authored peer-reviewed papers.
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