MineLife · Reconstructing the Social and Environmental History of Eastern Desert Mining Communities (2nd millennium BCE-2nd century AD)
Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2027-02-01 → 2029-01-31
- EU contribution
- €226,421
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF
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Project objective
MineLife is a groundbreaking project aimed at advancing research on Eastern Desert mining communities by integratingarchaeological, textual, spatial, and environmental data from different historical periods. It proposes to create a new social history byexamining mining landscapes and their interaction with human life over two millennia. The project focuses on four main objectives:1. Reconstruct ancient Egyptian knowledge about the desert environment, capturing their understanding of its natural resources andchanges over time. This will involve analysing ancient Egyptian and Greek texts, including inscriptions and administrative documents,to gather information on landscape features like wells, vegetation, and geographical landmarks.2. Model the socio-environmental evolution of mining communities by studying settlement patterns and paleoenvironments. Thiswill be achieved through remote sensing technologies, GIS, and analysis of soil samples. Story-maps will merge archaeological datawith historical and environmental information to visualise mining settlements' spatial distribution and their relationship with thelandscape.3. Investigate how dietary habits evolved over time and differed across various regions of the Eastern Desert, thereby gaining a clearerinsight into the living conditions within specific communities and among diverse human groups.4. Examine long-term socio-environmental dynamics and culture-landscape relationships using an interdisciplinary approach. Theproject will combine textual, archaeological, spatial, and environmental data to understand mining communities' life conditions andsurvival strategies.
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