HighStepLands. Holocene socio-cultural-environmental interactions along a highland altitudinal transect of the Zagros Mountains (Kohgiluyeh-e Boyer Ahmad Province, Southwestern Iran)

该项目旨在重建伊朗西南部扎格罗斯山脉长期的社会文化环境动态和文化景观形成过程的过去变化。特别是，这项研究将重建过去人类住区的动态和流动模式，并确定过去社会应付和反应不断变化的环境和政治条件的战略。在SPP中，拟议的研究重点直接涉及主要研究课题ST 3“移动性和网络”中提出的问题。此外，该项目将对“FF2：人口动态和定居系统”、“FF4：应对距离的策略”以及“FF5：流动性模式”等研究领域作出重大贡献，并采用创新方法调查新收集的数据集。我们计划采用高度跨学科的三支柱方法，包括：1)古环境；2)景观考古；3)民族历史研究。位于伊朗西南部主要文化区之间的关键位置，高山林立的Kohgiluyeh-e Boyer Ahmad省是本案例研究的理想环境。在这里，有可能在有限的水平距离内找到非常多样化的环境条件。未开发的古环境和考古档案的存在，以及民族历史记录的存在，为重建位于不同海拔的环境不同的子区域的过去人类住区和连通性提供了极好的条件。目前的调查将结合Kohgiluyeh-e Boyer Ahmad省三个不同环境区域的详细研究结果，重点从新石器时代的最早阶段到帝国时代（约公元前9000年至公元前700年）。具体而言，本研究将：a)从两个湖泊沉积物档案中获取大量详细的全新世古环境数据，用于重建植被、土壤和水资源的变化；B)获取新的考古数据集，并将其与现有考古记录相结合，重建区域人口动态；C)通过对书面文件和人种学实例的分析，确定该特定地区社会组织的主要形式、生存模式和流动模式；D)关联和整合上述记录，以详细重建过去的动态。简而言之，这项研究旨在成为跨学科研究努力的一个典型例子，以探索扎格罗斯山脉“边缘”地区过去的社会文化环境相互作用。这种创新的方法方法的结果可以用来推断伊朗高地其他地区或西南亚洲其他山区的类似动态。

The project aims to reconstruct long-term socio-cultural-environmental dynamics and past changes in cultural landscape formation processes in the Zagros Mountains of Southwestern Iran. In particular, this study will reconstruct past human settlement dynamics and mobility patterns, as well as identify strategies of past societies to cope with and react to changing environmental and political conditions. Within the SPP, the proposed research focus speaks directly to the questions raised in the main Research Topic ST 3 "Mobility and Networks". Further, the project will make a strong contribution to the research fields "FF2: Population dynamics and settlement Systems", "FF4: Strategies of coping with distances", as well as "FF5: Mobility Patterns" with an innovative approach to investigate newly collected datasets. We plan to use a highly interdisciplinary three-pillared approach including: 1) palaeoenvironmental; 2) landscape archaeological; 3) ethno-historical studies.Located in a crucial position between the main cultural zones of Southwestern Iran, the highly mountainous Kohgiluyeh-e Boyer Ahmad Province is an ideal setting for this case study. Here, it is possible to find very diverse environmental conditions within a limited horizontal distance. The presence of unexplored palaeoenvironmental and archaeological archives, as well as ethno-historical accounts offer excellent conditions to reconstruct past human settlement and connectivity over environmentally distinct sub-regions located at different elevations. With a focus ranging from the earliest phase of the Neolithic process to the age of the empires (ca. 9000 BCE-700 CE), the present investigation will combine the results of detailed studies in three different environmental zones of the Kohgiluyeh-e Boyer Ahmad Province. In particular, this study will: a) acquire a vast and detailed Holocene palaeoenvironmental dataset from two lake sediment archives for reconstructing changes in the vegetal, soil, and water resources; b) acquire new archaeological datasets and integrate them with the existing archaeological record to reconstruct regional population dynamics; c) identify the main forms of social organizations, the modes of subsistence and patterns of mobility in this specific region as derived from the analysis of written documents and ethnographic examples; d) correlate and integrate the above-mentioned records for a detailed reconstruction of past dynamics. In a nutshell, this study aims to be a prototypical example of interdisciplinary research efforts to explore past socio-cultural-environmental interactions in a ‘marginal’ sector of the Zagros Mountains. The results of this innovative methodological approach may then be extrapolated to trace similar dynamics in other sections of the Iranian Highlands, or in other mountainous areas of southwestern Asia.