Connectivity, interregional networks and cultural contacts: Late Bronze Age and Iron Age ResourceCultures in the Eastern Mediterranean (A06)

• Subject Area: Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies ; Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: since 2013
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 215859406

The project aims to investigate developments in resource management during the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the East Mediterranean region, with a special focus on the Levant. The focus is on connectivity and exchange as resource structures and the role of the specific ResourceCultures of the coastal cities in the socio-cultural dynamics of that period.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1070: Resource Cultures. Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Relation to Resources
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Martin Bartelheim, since 7/2021; Dr. Virginia Herrmann, until 6/2021; Professor Dr. Jens Kamlah