Sedentism as a Process of Innovation
Journal: Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin)
Year: 2016

In the second half of the second millennium BC, many areas of Western Eurasia witnessed the return to a settled lifestyle after a long epoch of mobile life. Between the Black Sea, the Caucasus, and neighbouring mountains, a new type of settlements arose. Particular in the Caucasian mountains an architectural tradition emerged that involved the permanent building material stone for the construction of very sophisticated multifunctional build- ings. Stone architecture probably was not invented in