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Coming to Terms with the Future
Concepts of Resilience for the Study of Early Iranian Societies
2023 || Paperback || Reinhard Bernbeck e.a. || Sidestone Press
The collection of essays in this book focuses on the highlands of Iran in pre-modern times, reaching from the Paleolithic to the medieval period. What holds the diverse contributions together is an issue that is closely related to debates in our own times: crises and how societies in the past dealt with them. We start from the premise that general circumstances in the fractured topographic structure of the Iranian highlands led to unique relations between ecological, social, economic and poli...
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Containers of Change
Ancient Container Technologies from Eastern to Western Asia
2023 || Paperback || Olivier Nieuwenhuyse e.a. || Sidestone Press Academics
Across Western Asia, the astonishing increase in the availability of durable ceramic containers in the seventh millennium BCE had significant societal repercussions – so much so that vital social, economic, and symbolic activities became dependent upon the availability of pottery containers. These early ceramic containers, however, established themselves alongside flourishing pre-existing container traditions, with vessels made in a wide range of materials including clay, bitumen, basketry,...