@article{1489934,
      recid = {1489934},
      author = {Bernbeck, Reinhard. and Pollock, Susan. and Eberhardt,  Gisela.},
      title = {Coming to Terms with the Future : Concepts of Resilience  for the Study of Early Iranian Societies.},
      pages = {1 online resource (290 pages).},
      abstract = {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 political  conditions.In three sections entitled "Climate and  palaeoenvironment", "Settlement, subsistence and mobility"  und "Political and economic institutions", the authors ask  what sorts of crises afflicted past societies in the  Iranian highlands, to what extent they proved resilient,  and especially what strategies they developed for enhancing  the resilience of their ways of life. Looking for answers  in paleoenvironmental proxy data, archaeological findings  and written sources, the authors examine subsistence  economies, political institutions, religious beliefs,  everyday routines and economic specialization in different  temporal, spatial and organizational scales. This book is  the first volume of a series published by the  German-Iranian research cooperation _"The Iranian  Highlands: Resiliences and Integration in Premodern  Societies"_. The goal of the research project is to shine a  new light on communities and societies that populated the  Iranian highlands and their more or less successful  strategies to cope with the many vagaries, the constant  changes and risks of their natural and humanly shaped  environments.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1489934},
}