Gramineous fraction of the invasive flora of the Caucasus

This paper concerns the cartography of Afghanistan in antiquity using the example of Ortospana, a toponym that is presumably a corruption of *Oryospana, the ancient name of Ghazni. In order to cover all the hypotheses involved in this study, the itinerary of Alexander will also be revisited from southern and northern Afghanistan to Taxila through the crossroads of Alexandria in the Caucasus and along the Kabul River.

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The Medieval Population of Mountainous Ingushetia According to Odontological Data

Вестник антропологии (Herald of Anthropology) ◽

10.33876/2311-0546/2019-48-4/197-209 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 178-196

Author(s):

Natalya A. Lejbova ◽

Umalat B. Gadiev

Keyword(s):

Morphological Traits ◽

Dental Anthropology ◽

Deep Roots ◽

The Caucasus ◽

New Material ◽

The Republic ◽

The Village ◽

Medieval Population

Although population of the Caucasus has been studied in a rather detailed way, there are peoples whose anthropological portrait is still incomplete. Among them are the Ingush, one of the oldest autochthonous peoples of the Caucasus. This work presents new material on the dental anthropology of medieval Ingush, collected in 2017 during expeditions to the Jairakh and Sunzhen districts of the Republic of Ingushetia. In the Jairakh district, the investigations were carried out in the crypt complexes of the 15th–18th centuries – Targim, Agikal, Tsori, Salgi, and in Sunzhen region - in crypts near the village of Muzgan. The craniological series of medieval Ingush studied according to the dental anthropology program can be described as belonging to the western range of odontological complexes. Unlike most modern Caucasian groups, it does not belong to gracile forms, but rather to a maturized odontological variant, which has deep roots in the Caucasus. The results once again demonstrate a certain conservatism and stability of the dental system, which preserves morphological traits of ancestral groups longer than other anthropological systems.

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GEOMORPHIC ANALYSIS OF MUD-FLOW HAZARD ON THE GORGE SHIROKAYA BALKA (THE BLACK SEA COAST OF THE CAUCASUS)

Geomorphology RAS ◽

10.15356/0435-4281-2010-2-19-26 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 19

Author(s):

A. Yu. Barinov

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

The Black Sea ◽

The Caucasus ◽

Black Sea Coast ◽

Sea Coast ◽

Mud Flow

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Through the Lens of Gurdjieff

Fieldwork in Religion ◽

10.1558/firn.31487 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 36-52

Author(s):

Michael Pittman

Keyword(s):

Participant Observation ◽

Field Research ◽

Spiritual Transformation ◽

Spiritual Practice ◽

Asia Minor ◽

Eastern Asia ◽

The Caucasus ◽

Successive Generations ◽

Spiritual Conversation

G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866–1949) was born in Gyumri, Armenia and raised in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor. He also traveled extensively throughout Turkey to places of pilgrimage and in search of Sufi teachers. Through the lens of Gurdjieff’s notion of legominism, or the means by which spiritual teachings are transmitted from successive generations, this article explores the continuing significance of spiritual practice and tradition and the ways that these forms remain relevant in shaping contemporary trends in spirituality. Beginning with Gurdjieff’s use of legominism, the article provides reflection on some early findings done in field research in Turkey— through site visits, interviews and participant-observation—conducted in the summers of 2014 and 2015. The aim of the project is both to meet individuals and groups, particularly connected to Sufism, that may have some contact with the influences that Gurdjieff would have been familiar with, and to visit some of the sites that were part of Gurdjieff’s early background and which served to inform his work. Considerations of contemporary practices include the view of spiritual transmission, and practices of pilgrimage, prayer and sohbet, or spiritual conversation, in an ongoing discourse about spiritual transformation.

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