The Iranian highlands: Mining regions of the Central Plateau between resilient and precarious societal and economic strategies.

伊朗干旱的高原地区的特点是矿产资源极其丰富。虽然该地区主要是水的贫困，畜牧系统和绿洲园艺系统，高原社会实现了可持续的战略，以管理这些资源的开发，并建立其开发和建立非常具体的原材料制度。其社会和经济影响可以预见，特别是在第五和第四轧机开始冶金的时候。公元前，在铁器时代的初期，特别是在阿契美尼德和萨珊帝国时期，矿产资源成为政治战略的重要因素。这是可能的，因为农村系统能够制定有复原力的生活和生计战略，从而能够成功和持续地利用当地和区域资源。要回答的核心问题是要了解如何采矿牧民的做法是由稳定和大量的原材料交付的制度需求的影响，以及这些需求如何改变原材料网络，生存战略和流动模式作为复杂的社会组织的一部分，以及经济的愿景，最好是农村社区参与这些生产。为了能够进行综合，该项目打算从各种案例中收集跨学科的数据。除了Chehrabad盐矿周围的盐矿景观外，该项目还计划调查Takestan和Shakan（Qazvin省）附近的采矿和冶金生产中心及其定居和生计系统，Veshnaveh铜矿区（2000-2005年期间已进行实地研究），以及Kerman Halil Rud“文明”的矿产资源管理。将通过调查、小规模挖掘矿山和单一定居点和生产地点来调查四个不同时期的例子，并从结构意义上（设施和基础设施的布局、生存战略、经济战略）进行相互比较。

The arid highlands of Iran are characterized by an enormous richness in mineral resources. Although the region is dominated by the poverty of water, by pastoral systems and horticultural systems in oases, sustainable strategies were achieved by highland societies to manage the exploitation of these resources and to establish their exploitation and to establish very specific raw material regimes. The societal and economic influence can be envisaged especially during the beginnings of metallurgy during the 5th and 4th mill. BCE, in the initial phases of the Iron Age and especially during the Achaemenid and Sasanian empires when mineral resources became important factors of political strategies. This was possible on the basis of rural systems that were capable of developing resilient living and subsistence strategies that allowed exploitation of local and regional resources successfully and continuously. The central question to be answered is to understand how miner-herder-practices were influenced by institutional demands in stable and large raw material deliveries, and how these demands altered raw material networks, the strategies of subsistence and patterns of mobility as part of complex social organisations, as well as visions of economies, preferably of rural communities being involved with these productions. To enable syntheses the project intends to collect interdisciplinary data from various case examples. Besides the salt-mining landscape around the salt-mine of Chehrabad, the project plans to investigate mining and metallurgical production-centres and their settlement and subsistence systems near Takestan and Shakan (Qazvin province), the area of the copper deposits of Veshnaveh (studied already in field between 2000-2005), and the mineral resource management of Halil Rud “civilisation” in Kerman. Examples of four different time-periods will be investigated by help of surveys, small-scale excavations in mines and single settlement and production-sites and compared to each other in a structural sense (layout of installations and infrastructure, subsistence strategy, economic strategy).