The Archaeology of the Caucasus: From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age (Cambridge World Archaeology)
Cambridge University Press, 11/30/2017
EAN 9781107016590, ISBN10: 1107016592
Hardcover, 562 pages, 25.9 x 18.5 x 3 cm
Language: English
In The Archaeology of the Caucasus, Antonio Sagona provides the first comprehensive survey of a key area in the Eurasian land mass, from the earliest settlement to the end of the early Iron Age. Examining the bewildering array of cultural complexes found in the region, he draws on both Soviet and post-Soviet investigations and synthesises the vast quantity of diverse and often fragmented evidence across the region's frontiers. Written in an engaging manner that balances material culture and theory, the volume focuses on the most significant sites and cultural traditions. Sagona also highlights the accomplishments of the Caucasian communities and situates them within the broader setting of their neighbours in Anatolia, Iran, and Russia. Sprinkled with new data, much of it published here for the first time, The Archaeology of the Caucasus contains many new photographs, drawings and plans, many of which have not been accessible to Western researchers.
1. The land and its languages
2. Traillblazers
the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic foundations
3. Transition to settled life
the Neolithic
4. Far-flung networks
the Chalcolithic
5. Encounters beyond the Caucasus
the Kura-Araxes culture and the early Bronze Age
6. Dolmens for the dead
the Western Caucasus in the Bronze Age
7. The emergence of elites and a new social order
8. From fortresses to fragmentation
the Southern Caucasus in the Late Bronze Age through Iron Age I
9. Smiths, warriors and womenfolk
the Koban culture of the Northern Caucasus
10. A world apart
the Colchian culture
11. The grand challenges for the archaeology of the Caucasus.