scholarly journals Dietary practices, cultural and social identity in the Early Bronze Age southern Caucasus

Paléorient ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 151-174
Author(s):  
Estelle Herrscher ◽  
Modwene Poulmarc’h ◽  
Giulio Palumbi ◽  
Sarit Paz ◽  
Elena Rova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Dietary Practices ◽  
Southern Caucasus

scholarly journals Palaeoethnobotanical Data from the High Mountainous Early Bronze Age Settlement of Tsaghkasar-1 (Mt. Aragats, Armenia)

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 58-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Hovsepyan
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Bread Wheat ◽  
Cereal Grains ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The South ◽  
South Caucasus ◽  
Tetraploid Wheats ◽  
Southern Caucasus

Palaeoethnobotanical investigations suggest that at least part of the Early Bronze Age population of Tsaghkasar was settled and practiced agriculture in the high mountainous zone. People there appear to have cultivated hexa‐ and tetraploid wheats (probably bread wheat and emmer) and barley (possibly hulled). Bronze Age agriculture in the Southern Caucasus differs from earlier and later period when cultivation of pulses, oil‐producing plants, and other plants was common. This emphasis on the cultivation and use of certain cereal grains at Early Bronze sites such as Tsaghkasar can tentatively be added to a constellation of practices associated with the Kura‐Araxes culture in the South Caucasus.

Areni-1 Cave, Armenia: A Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age settlement and ritual site in the southern Caucasus

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith N Wilkinson ◽  
Boris Gasparian ◽  
Ron Pinhasi ◽  
Pavel Avetisyan ◽  
Roman Hovsepyan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Southern Caucasus ◽  
Ritual Site

scholarly journals Economy and status of Neolithic to Early Bronze age sites in the Southern Caucasus during the 6th‐3rd mill. BCE: The evidence from ground stone tools

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Hamon
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Resource Exploitation ◽  
Tool Manufacture ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
Ground Stone ◽  
Southern Caucasus

In the Southern Caucasus, the evolution of the Neolithic to Bronze age (6th-3rd millenia BCE) economies is often investigated through the prism of adaptation to constrasted landscapes and environments (arid plain, high moutains, subtropical western coasts) and strategies of natural resource exploitation. This overview of the main technological and functional characteristics of ground stone tools from about 20 sites in the Kura Valley (Georgia, Azerbaijan) contributes to the discussion surrounding these questions. After an overview of the evolution of the grinding equipment and stone tool manufacture within a long term perspective, from the Late Neoliothic to the Early Bronze Age, several issues are adressed. The composition of the macrolithic toolkit is a key issue when discussing the importance of agriculture versus pastoralism in the economy of these populations, which evolved in different regional and environmental contexts. Its management also contributes to our understanding of the degree of sedentarity versus mobility of the populations. Finally, we discuss how the technical evolution of the macrolithic toolkit reflects the principal global changes occurring during this long period of time (neolithisation, emergence of metallurgy, and the mining phenomenon) and their cultural meaning. Our initial results underline the significance of some implements as cultural markers, and also contribute to defining the common cultural background and regional specificities within the South Caucasus region.

scholarly journals The Early Bronze Age of the Southern Caucasus

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio Palumbi
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Northern Caucasus ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Mountain Regions ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Southern Caucasus ◽  
Funerary Customs ◽  
Changing Role

The aim of this article is to highlight the social and cultural developments that took place in the Southern Caucasus during the Early Bronze Age. Between 3500 and 2500 BC ca., new pottery, architectural and metallurgical traditions, known collectively as Kura-Araxes, new settlement forms in the mountain regions and new funerary customs emerged. Examining these changes, the article draws a picture of the organization of the Early Bronze Age communities in the Southern Caucasus societies centering primarily on the household and horizontal kinship relationships. We argue that this model was radically different from those of the vertically organized societies of Southern Mesopotamia and Northern Caucasus. Finally, the paper focuses on the changing role of metals towards the mid-third millennium BC and that, by causing radical social transformations, also brought to an end the Kura-Araxes traditions.

scholarly journals Cultural Attribution of Early Bronze Age Tombs Under Kurgans in Azerbaijan

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
P. P. Gasymov
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Distinct Category ◽  
Southern Caucasus ◽  
Lesser Caucasus

This study focuses on the cultural attribution of a distinct category of Early Bronze Age burials in the eastern piedmont of the Lesser Caucasus, northwestern Azerbaijan, known as “tombs under kurgans” or “kurgans with collective burials in tombs”. There was an opinion that such burials belong to the early period of the Kura-Araxes (or proto-Kura-Araxes) culture. To test this idea, we analyzed ceramics from tombs under kurgans at Shadyly, Uzun-Rama, and Mentesh-Tepe, all of which have radiocarbon dates. Results suggest that the vessels are hand-made, their paste contains no organic temper, and they are a coarse imitation of the Uruk ceramics. This tradition is unrelated to the Kura-Araxes culture, marked by a handmade red-and-black burnished pottery. Also, at the highly developed stage of the Kura-Araxes in any of its local versions, collective burials in tombs were not practiced. Thus, before the emergence of the Kuro-Araxes culture in the Southern Caucasus, there was a population practicing the tradition of kurgans with collective burials in tombs. The origin of this tradition is a contentious matter. What we know only is that it emerged in the 34th century BC and disappeared around the 31st–30th centuries BC, following the Kura-Araxes expansion in the Southern Caucasus.

The hidden side of ritual: New palynological data from Early Bronze Age Georgia, the Southern Caucasus

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 235-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliso Kvavadze ◽  
Antonio Sagona ◽  
Inga Martkoplishvili ◽  
Maia Chichinadze ◽  
Mindia Jalabadze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Palynological Data ◽  
Southern Caucasus
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