Mobile villages and dynamic landscapes: the Varamin Plain from the late 5th to the early 3rd mill. BCE PART 2: Excavations at Tell Begum in the Shahrizor Plain

“移动的村庄和动态景观”项目的第二阶段审查了扎格罗斯山脉中西部沙赫里佐尔平原一个高地社区的复原力和危机处理情况。与项目第一阶段重点关注的瓦拉明平原的高度动态冲积扇相比，沙赫里佐尔平原的特点是环境状况更加稳定，因此提供了一个适当的比较案例，以研究流动性作为恢复战略。贝尔贝古姆遗址，从新石器时代晚期到铜器时代晚期（6世纪中期到4世纪中期）。BCE），将是拟议工作的重点。以往的研究表明，尽管表面上看起来长期的解决连续性，长期的放弃阶段和小规模的解决转移的特点解决的历史。这表明了对危机的不同社会文化反应和避免危机的方法。调查的一个核心要素是经济流动性战略。我们将经济流动性理解为与资源获取、交换和使用有关的流动模式，涉及人员、植物、动物、材料和社会文化信息的流通。我们假设，在材料、信息和社会联系来源具有更高多样性的情况下，复原力会更强;相反，低多样性使社区在危机面前更脆弱。生存资源（植物、动物及其产品）、耐用材料和货物（例如，陶器、石器）以及通信网络（可识别为风格上的相似性）将根据其在遗址占领的每个阶段的多样性程度进行审查。

The second phase of the project “Mobile Villages and Dynamic Landscapes” examines resilience and the handling of crises in a highland community in the Shahrizor plain of the west-central Zagros mountains. In contrast to the highly dynamic alluvial fan of the Varamin Plain, which was the focus of the first phase of the project, the Shahrizor Plain is characterized by a more stable environmental situation and thus offers a suitable comparative case in which to investigate mobilities as strategies of resilience. The site of Tell Begum, occupied from the Late Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic periods (mid-6th to mid-4th mill. BCE), will be the focus of the proposed work. Previous research indicates that despite a superficial appearance of long-term settlement continuity, both longer-term abandonment phases and small-scale settlement shifts characterize the settlement’s history. These suggest different sociocultural responses to crises and ways of averting them. A central element of the investigations will be strategies of economic mobility. We understand economic mobility as patterns of mobility connected to resource acquisition, exchange, and use, involving the circulation of people, plants, animals, materials, and sociocultural information. We postulate that resilience will be greater in cases in which there is higher diversity in the sources of materials, information, and social connections; conversely, low diversity leaves communities more vulnerable in the face of crises. Subsistence resources (plants, animals and their products), durable materials and goods (e.g., pottery, stone tools) as well as communication networks (identifiable as stylistic similarities) will be examined in terms of their degrees of diversity in each phase of the site’s occupation.