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

Applicant Professor Dr. Florian Janoscha Kreppner
Subject Area Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Term since 2023
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 516470639
 

Project 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.
DFG Programme Priority Programmes
Subproject of SPP 2176:  The Iranian Highlands: Resilience and Integration of Premodern Societies