Archaeology in the borderlands
Subtitle: investigations in Caucasia and beyond
By: edited by Adam T. Smith & Karen S. Rubinson.
Contributors: Smith, Adam T.; Rubinson, Karen Sydney, 1943-
Series: Monograph series -- 47.; Monograph (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA) -- 47.
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) -- Caucasus; Bronze age -- Caucasus; Caucasus -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: Integrated interaction at the beginning of the Bronze Age / Philip L. Kohl; title: Ancient metallurgy in the mountain kingdom / Dave L. Peterson; title: On the origins of the Kura-Araxes cultural complex / Tamaz Kiguradze and Antonio Sagona; title: Ripples in the stream / Mitchell S. Rothman; title: Social and economic shifts in the South Caucasian Middle Bronze Age / Marina Puturidze; title: Silver vessels and cylinder sealings / Karen S. Rubinson; title: The emergence of sociopolitical complexity in southern Caucasia / Ruben S. Badalyan, Adam T. Smith, and Pavel S. Avetisyan; title: Pre-Urartian and Urartian settlement patterns in the Caucasus, two case studies / Raffaele Biscione; title: The early Iron Age in the Van region / Veli Sevin; title: Recent excavations at the Urartian fortress of Ayanis / Altan Çilingiroğlu; title: The Urartian transformation in the outer town of Ayanis / Elizabeth C. Stone and Paul Zimansky; title: The culture of ancient Georgia in the first millennium BC and greater Anatolia / Gocha Tsetskhladze.