CrossHighlands: Mobility and Resource Procurement Strategies in the Mountains of Kohgiluyeh (southwestern Iran)

该项目调查了Kohgiluyeh（伊朗西南部）山区的流动模式和资源采购策略。因此，它直接涉及SPP 2176“伊朗高地”的两个研究重点：“流动性和网络”和“景观和原材料制度”。位于海拔600米至海拔2000米以上，Kohgiluyeh是在有限的水平距离内发现非常多样化的环境条件的地方，是研究山区环境中的移动性和资源采购策略的理想案例。此外，它靠近Susiana平原，使Kohgiluyeh成为研究史前和早期历史时期低地和山地民族之间社会文化互动的一个特殊场所。流动模式和原材料采购策略是环境、社会、经济和文化因素长期相互作用的结果。本研究在一个坚实的跨学科框架中考虑了所有这些组成部分，在考古学，历史学和自然科学的专业知识之间建立了一座桥梁。基于原始的实地调查数据，对选定的有机和无机材料的新的科学分析，以及现有的考古和历史数据集，这个跨学科的项目调查了当地，区域和跨区域规模的流动性。对Bibi Zoleikhaee和托勒Kouchak遗址以及Kohgiluyeh山间平原的桥梁和道路遗迹的考古调查是本研究的起点。该项目将首次在调查区域应用一系列创新的科学方法，包括同位素、地球化学分析、摄影测量记录和3D重建，用于陶瓷和石器文物以及生物考古遗迹的研究。这些新获得的数据集将与现有的考古和历史数据相关联并整合，以生成过去移动轨迹的可靠重建。这将导致识别触发流动决策的多因果原因以及原材料采购轨迹随时间的可能变化。超越传统的学科界限，我们希望这个项目将大大有助于当前的科学辩论移动的畜牧业，资源管理，国家的形成，以及人与环境的相互作用沿着伊朗西南部的扎格罗斯。

This project investigates mobility patterns and resource procurement strategies in the mountain region of Kohgiluyeh (southwestern Iran). Thus, it directly addresses two of the research foci of the SPP 2176 “Iranian Highlands”: “Mobility and Networks” and “Landscapes and raw material regimes”. Located at an elevation ranging between 600 and above 2000 m a.s.l., where very diverse environmental conditions are found in a limited horizontal distance, Kohgiluyeh represents an ideal case for the study of mobility and resource procurement strategies in mountainous environments. Furthermore, its proximity to the plains of Susiana makes Kohgiluyeh a privileged place to investigate socio-cultural interactions between lowland and mountain peoples during the prehistoric and early historical times. Mobility patterns and raw material procurement strategies are the result of the interactions through time of environmental, social, economic and cultural factors. This study considers all of these components in a solid interdisciplinary framework, creating a bridge between expertise from archaeology, history, and natural sciences. Based on original fieldwork data, novel scientific analyses of selected organic and inorganic materials, and available archaeological and historical datasets, this interdisciplinary project investigates mobility on a local, regional and over-regional scale. The archaeological investigations of the sites of Bibi Zoleikhaee and Tole Kouchak, and of the remains of bridges and roads in the intermontane plains of Kohgiluyeh are the starting points for this research. For the first time in the investigated region, the project will apply a range of innovative scientific methods, including isotopic, geochemical analyses, photogrammetric documentation and 3D reconstructions, for the study of ceramic and stone artefacts, as well as bioarchaeological remains. These newly acquired datasets will be correlated and integrated into the existing archaeological and historical data to generate a solid reconstruction of past mobility trajectories. This will lead to identification of multi-causal reasons that triggered mobility decisions and possible changes in raw material procurement trajectories over time. Moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, we expect that this project will greatly contribute to the current scientific debates on mobile pastoralism, resource management, state formation, and human-environmental interactions along the Zagros of Southwestern Iran.