SPP 2176 - Subproject: Resilience of Iron Age Communities on the Eastern Flank of the Zagros Mountains’ Chaîne Magistale in the context of the Assyrian Expansion towards the Western Iranian Highlands
Basic data for this project
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted outside University of Münster
Duration at the University of Münster: 01/03/2023 - 28/02/2026 | 1st Funding period
Description
The aim of the project is to carry out basic research in the field of the socio-political organization of the Iron Age communities in the central Zagros highlands of western Iran with the targeted processing, evaluation and publication of the already collected data from archaeological field research in the years 2017–2021 and to investigate them in the context of the Assyrian Empire striving for resources and therefore expanding into the Zagros Mountains.
Keywords: Hochlandgesellschaften; Eisenzeit
Website of the project: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/516470639
DFG-Gepris-ID: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/516470639
Funding identifier: KR 4990/3-1 | DFG project number: 516470639
Funder / funding scheme:
- DFG - Priority Programme (SPP)
Project management at the University of Münster
| Kreppner, Florian Janoscha | Professorship for Near Eastern archeology |
Applicants from the University of Münster
| Kreppner, Florian Janoscha | Professorship for Near Eastern archeology |
Research associates from the University of Münster
| Masoumian, Mohammad | Professorship for Near Eastern archeology |
Coordinating organisations outside the University of Münster
- Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – Leibniz Research Museum for Geo-resources (DBM)Germany