The Kura-Araxes economy: mobile pastoralism or sedentary agriculture?
Year: 2021

The Kura-Araxes cultural complex has often been described as having had an economy based on transhumant pastoralism. Mobile pastoralism has been used as a mechanism to explain the expansion of the Kura-Araxes horizon across the Near East. Yet the extent of pastoral mobility within the Kura-Araxes economy has been questioned, both through archaeozoological analyses and reassessments of the portability of the Kura-Araxes material culture. This paper will discuss different types of pastoral and agr