Resilience and Adaptation: Abstracts

Resilience and Adaptation in Ancient West Asia. NINO Postdoctoral Research Fellow 7^th Annual Conference

Leiden, 26-27 November 2026. Organized by: Diederik Halbertsma

For the conference program, see the event page.

Abstracts

Theoretical Background

Ian Kuijt: Keynote (title t.b.c.)

World Archaeology

Dita Auzina: t.b.c.

Sean Desjardins: t.b.c.

Foundations in Resilience

Meredith Chesson: t.b.c.

Pascal Flohr: t.b.c.

Jennifer Swerida: t.b.c.

Bleda Düring: Boom and Bust in the Sohar Hinterlands – Archaeological Data and Demographic Reconstructions

Regional Deep Dive: West Asia

Nathaniel Erb-Satullo: Surviving the Crisis Years: Foundations of Societal Resilience in the Late Bronze Age Caucasus

Aris Politopoulos: t.b.c.

Bruce Routledge: The Infrastructure of Resilience: Tells as Persistent Places in Landscapes of Mobility

Andrew Danielson:
A Tale of Two Wadis: Exploring Landscape and Settlement in the Highlands of Western Jordan

Douglas Baird: Resilience and Adaptation in the Konya Plain, 14,000-6,000 cal BC

DLshad Aziz Marf: Mountain Resilience in the Zagros: How Ancient Communities Endured Socio-Environmental Crises and Preserved Their Architectural Heritage

Sajad Samii: From Inhabited House to Archaeological Record: An Experimental Approach to Resilience and Adaptation in West Asian Vernacular Architecture

Aven al-Qatameen: Making Landscape: Adaptation Strategies and Resilience in Neolithic Jordan