Resources and Processes of Social Change
Project division A. DEVELOPMENTS concentrates on diachronic studies about the role of resources in processes of social and cultural change.
The focus will be on historical situations in which access to raw materials and natural products was granted locally, regionally or continuously through established ways of distribution.
The thematic key aspects of the case studies will be questions addressing resources and the emergence of hierarchies in prehistoric Europe, as well as resource use and the formation of states in the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean.