G. COMAI, C. FRAPPI, G, PEDRINI, E. ROVA (eds.), Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale. Ricerche 2019 (Eurasiatica 12). Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. ISBN 978-88-6969-341-0., 2019
Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East – Tigridian Region (ARCANE 5), 2019
The volume is the result of the work of the Tigridian regional group of the European Science Foun... more The volume is the result of the work of the Tigridian regional group of the European Science Foundation- funded ARCANE project, whose goal was to produce a reliable relative and absolute chronology of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean for the Early Bronze Age, based on the synchronisation of the different regional chronologies. It is edited by the group's team leaders, and contains ten richly illustrated contributions, by internationally recognised experts, about different aspetct of the material culture of the Upper Tigris region. It proposes a new and an unified terminology, and thus represents the most updated synthesis on the Early Bronze Age archaeology of the area.
35 papers, originally presented by an international group of researchers at a conference held in ... more 35 papers, originally presented by an international group of researchers at a conference held in Venice in January 2013, present the results of the last 20 years of archaeological research about the pre-classical cultures of the Caucasus and Anatolia, and analyse the latter in the wider framework of their changing relations with those of the Ancient Near East and of the Eurasian steppes. The volume covers a wide chronological span – from the late 5th to the early 1st millennium BC, and includes contributions about a wide range of topics (reports of archaeological excavations and surveys, chronology, economy, social organisation of the ancient populations, technology, long-distance exchange of raw materials and artefacts, archaeometallurgy, landscape archaeology, etc.). According to the most recent developments of research, these are investigated in a remarkably interdisciplinary perspective. The participation to the conference of well-recognised experts working not only in diff erent countries of the Southern Caucasus and in Anatolia (in present-day Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey) but also in the North-Caucasian republics of the present-day Russian Federation offered a rare opportunity to compare and discuss recent trends of archaeological research in these different regions. Therefore, this volume represents a fundamental contribution to both Near Eastern and Caucasian Archaeology.
This volume is the first part of the final publication of the Early Bronze Age levels of Khashur... more This volume is the first part of the final publication of the Early Bronze Age levels of Khashuri Natsargora. This important site of the Kura-Araxes and Early Kurgan period in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia, excavated in the 1980ies by a Georgian mission, was since then left unpublished. The joint “Georgian-Italian Shida Kartli Archaeological Project” carried out a thorough revision of the old excavation documentation and a study of the original finds, and integrated them with new archaeometric analyses and research on the site’s ancient environment The volume contains a general introduction to the site and its environment and the analysis of the Kura-Araxes graves; it also includes a study of the Early Bronze Age cemeteries in the Shida Kartli region. It represents a significant contribution to the still limited corpus of evidence about this cultures published in English available to the specialists of Near Eastern and Caucasian archaeology.
Lebeau Marc. Stratified archaeological evidence and compared periodizations in the Syrian Jezirah... more Lebeau Marc. Stratified archaeological evidence and compared periodizations in the Syrian Jezirah during the third millennium B.C. In: Chronologies des pays du Caucase et de l’Euphrate aux IVe-IIIe millénaires. From the Euphrates to the Caucasus: Chronologies for the 4th-3rd millennium B.C. Vom Euphrat in den Kaukasus: Vergleichende Chronologie des 4. und 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr. Actes du Colloque d’Istanbul, 16-19 décembre 1998. Istanbul : Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 2000. pp. 167-192. (Varia Anatolica, 11
Cet objet de provenance inconnue est conserve dans une collection privee. Il est realise en crist... more Cet objet de provenance inconnue est conserve dans une collection privee. Il est realise en cristal de roche de bonne qualite. Le motif figurant sur sa base et destine a impressionner l'argile molle represente deux quadrupedes tres stylises. La datation de cet objet est particulierement difficile : des objets semblables apparaissent des l'epoque de Djemdet Nasr (3000-2800 av. J. C.). On a egalement trouve des grenouilles semblables sur les sites d'Uruk et de Tell Brak. Notre objet pourrait provenir de la vaste zone de diffusion de la culture d'Uruk
G. COMAI, C. FRAPPI, G, PEDRINI, E. ROVA (eds.), Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale. Ricerche 2019 (Eurasiatica 12). Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari. ISBN 978-88-6969-341-0., 2019
Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East – Tigridian Region (ARCANE 5), 2019
The volume is the result of the work of the Tigridian regional group of the European Science Foun... more The volume is the result of the work of the Tigridian regional group of the European Science Foundation- funded ARCANE project, whose goal was to produce a reliable relative and absolute chronology of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean for the Early Bronze Age, based on the synchronisation of the different regional chronologies. It is edited by the group's team leaders, and contains ten richly illustrated contributions, by internationally recognised experts, about different aspetct of the material culture of the Upper Tigris region. It proposes a new and an unified terminology, and thus represents the most updated synthesis on the Early Bronze Age archaeology of the area.
35 papers, originally presented by an international group of researchers at a conference held in ... more 35 papers, originally presented by an international group of researchers at a conference held in Venice in January 2013, present the results of the last 20 years of archaeological research about the pre-classical cultures of the Caucasus and Anatolia, and analyse the latter in the wider framework of their changing relations with those of the Ancient Near East and of the Eurasian steppes. The volume covers a wide chronological span – from the late 5th to the early 1st millennium BC, and includes contributions about a wide range of topics (reports of archaeological excavations and surveys, chronology, economy, social organisation of the ancient populations, technology, long-distance exchange of raw materials and artefacts, archaeometallurgy, landscape archaeology, etc.). According to the most recent developments of research, these are investigated in a remarkably interdisciplinary perspective. The participation to the conference of well-recognised experts working not only in diff erent countries of the Southern Caucasus and in Anatolia (in present-day Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey) but also in the North-Caucasian republics of the present-day Russian Federation offered a rare opportunity to compare and discuss recent trends of archaeological research in these different regions. Therefore, this volume represents a fundamental contribution to both Near Eastern and Caucasian Archaeology.
This volume is the first part of the final publication of the Early Bronze Age levels of Khashur... more This volume is the first part of the final publication of the Early Bronze Age levels of Khashuri Natsargora. This important site of the Kura-Araxes and Early Kurgan period in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia, excavated in the 1980ies by a Georgian mission, was since then left unpublished. The joint “Georgian-Italian Shida Kartli Archaeological Project” carried out a thorough revision of the old excavation documentation and a study of the original finds, and integrated them with new archaeometric analyses and research on the site’s ancient environment The volume contains a general introduction to the site and its environment and the analysis of the Kura-Araxes graves; it also includes a study of the Early Bronze Age cemeteries in the Shida Kartli region. It represents a significant contribution to the still limited corpus of evidence about this cultures published in English available to the specialists of Near Eastern and Caucasian archaeology.
Lebeau Marc. Stratified archaeological evidence and compared periodizations in the Syrian Jezirah... more Lebeau Marc. Stratified archaeological evidence and compared periodizations in the Syrian Jezirah during the third millennium B.C. In: Chronologies des pays du Caucase et de l’Euphrate aux IVe-IIIe millénaires. From the Euphrates to the Caucasus: Chronologies for the 4th-3rd millennium B.C. Vom Euphrat in den Kaukasus: Vergleichende Chronologie des 4. und 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr. Actes du Colloque d’Istanbul, 16-19 décembre 1998. Istanbul : Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 2000. pp. 167-192. (Varia Anatolica, 11
Cet objet de provenance inconnue est conserve dans une collection privee. Il est realise en crist... more Cet objet de provenance inconnue est conserve dans une collection privee. Il est realise en cristal de roche de bonne qualite. Le motif figurant sur sa base et destine a impressionner l'argile molle represente deux quadrupedes tres stylises. La datation de cet objet est particulierement difficile : des objets semblables apparaissent des l'epoque de Djemdet Nasr (3000-2800 av. J. C.). On a egalement trouve des grenouilles semblables sur les sites d'Uruk et de Tell Brak. Notre objet pourrait provenir de la vaste zone de diffusion de la culture d'Uruk
Abstract The investigation of the Aradetis Orgora site and its burial area, Doghlauri, is providi... more Abstract The investigation of the Aradetis Orgora site and its burial area, Doghlauri, is providing new data about the Bronze Age in the Shida Kartli province (Georgia). A salvage excavation allowed the discovery of numerous graves and the human remains from 75 of these were later available for the present study. Twenty-three of them date back to the Early Bronze Age (EBA, Kura-Araxes culture) and 52 to the Late Bronze Age (LBA, Lchashen-Tsitelgori culture). Using standard anthropological methods, the minimum number of individuals (MNI) was estimated for each grave and sex and the age at death were assessed. Our preliminary results reveal a clear difference in burial customs between these two periods. The anthropological data coupled with the archaeological documentation suggest that in the EBA many of these graves can be interpreted as collective burials (in 13 Kura-Araxes graves out of 23 more than one individual was represented, with up to six individuals buried in them). Both sexes and almost all the age classes are represented in these. By contrast, in the LBA, single burials are the rule for all age classes and both sexes.
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