Landscape Archaeology In Southern Caucasia

Author : William Anderson,Kristen Hopper,Abby Robinson,Amy Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 370018204X

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Landscape Archaeology in Southern Caucasia by William Anderson,Kristen Hopper,Abby Robinson,Amy Robinson Pdf

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of research projects in Southern Caucasia that apply the methodologies and approaches of landscape archaeology. Focused on understanding the interaction between humans and their environments at multiple temporal and geographic scales, these projects have made use of intensive and extensive surveys, remote sensing and GIS-based analysis, very often taking a diachronic view. Landscape Archaeology in Southern Caucasia presents and reflects on projects currently employing these fresh perspectives and techniques in the lands between the Black and Caspian Seas, including and adjacent to the Greater and Lesser Caucasus mountain ranges; this takes in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of eastern Turkey and northwestern Iran. Through the centuries, this region has been a vital zone of contact between the Near East, Anatolia and Central Asia, but has also - in large part due to its remarkable and often difficult terrain of mountains, river valleys and plains - maintained a unique and fascinating local trajectory of development. Landscape Archaeology in Southern Caucasia is the product of a workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna in April 2016, which brought together scholars from around the world engaged in archaeological survey and landscape analysis in Southern Caucasia. The contributions in the volume cover a broad timescale, from the Neolithic through the medieval period and into the modern day, and deal with such themes as the relationship between past and present landscapes, heritage management, the use of remote sensing, the value of integrating historical texts and legacy data into new projects, survey methodologies, and patterns of movement. The volume also includes discussion of avenues for further research, particularly in the fields of information sharing and deeper engagement with legacy data. Finally, Landscape Archaeology in Southern Caucasia reflects and celebrates the spirit of collaboration between scholars within and beyond Southern Caucasia that is both apparent in the diversity of current projects and crucial to achieving the aims of future work in the region.

Author : Lorenzo d'. Alfonso,Karen Sydney Rubinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Borderlands
ISBN : 9042943734

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Borders in Archaeology by Lorenzo d'. Alfonso,Karen Sydney Rubinson Pdf

This volume is devoted to the search for borders in archaeology and takes as a case study the archaeology of Anatolia and the South Caucasus in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Up until the mid-first millennium BCE, these regions differ in interregional and macro-regional interactions, political complexity, economic and mobility strategies, and communication of identities, among which is the use and spread of writing through time. They are united by their representation in ancient sources and modern literature as borderlands. These features represent the core of the discussion developed in the volume. Chapters include theoretical discussion of borders and boundaries, and regional investigations of the Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age (Assyrian colony period, Hittite empire in Anatolia, Kura-Araxes, Trialeti-Vanadzor, Van-Urmia and other traditions in the South Caucasus), the Early Iron Age and Middle Iron Age (Troy, Phrygia, Urartu), until the unification under the Achaemenid Empire. They offer a balanced interplay between site-based investigations and landscape archaeology in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.

Author : Elena Rova,Monica Tonussi
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Armenia
ISBN : 2503548970

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An Der Nordgrenze Der Vorderasiatischen Archäologie by Elena Rova,Monica Tonussi Pdf

35 papers, originally presented by an international group of researchers at a conference held in Venice in January 2013, present the results of the last 20 years of archaeological research about the pre-classical cultures of the Caucasus and Anatolia, and analyse the latter in the wider framework of their changing relations with those of the Ancient Near East and of the Eurasian steppes. The volume covers a wide chronological span - from the late 5th to the early 1st millennium BC, and includes contributions about a wide range of topics (reports of archaeological excavations and surveys, chronology, economy, social organisation of the ancient populations, technology, long-distance exchange of raw materials and artefacts, archaeometallurgy, landscape archaeology, etc.). According to the most recent developments of research, these are investigated in a remarkably interdisciplinary perspective. The participation to the conference of well-recognised experts working not only in different countries of the Southern Caucasus and in Anatolia (in present-day Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey) but also in the North-Caucasian republics of the present-day Russian Federation offered a rare opportunity to compare and discuss recent trends of archaeological research in these different regions. Therefore, this volume represents a fundamental contribution to both Near Eastern and Caucasian Archaeology.

Author : John Chapman,Pavel Markovich Dolukhanov
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046909753

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Landscapes in Flux by John Chapman,Pavel Markovich Dolukhanov Pdf

Landscape archaeology, a recent theoretical discovery in the west, has long been practised by eastern european scholars. This stimulating collection of papers ranges over the whole of central and eastern Europe and from the Neolithic to the early Medieval periods.

Author : Bruno David,Julian Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315427720

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Handbook of Landscape Archaeology by Bruno David,Julian Thomas Pdf

Over the past three decades, 'landscape' has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. Here, archaeologists attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas & practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical & the practical, the research & conservation, encasing the term in a global framework.

Author : James Wiseman,Kōnstantinos L. Zachos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Arta (Greece : Nome)
ISBN : LCCN:2002044060

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Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece by James Wiseman,Kōnstantinos L. Zachos Pdf

Author : Antonio Sagona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107016590

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The Archaeology of the Caucasus by Antonio Sagona Pdf

This conspectus brings together in an accessible and systematic manner a dizzy array of archaeological cultures situated between several worlds.

Author : Kostas Zachos,James Wiseman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Archaeological geology
ISBN : 0876615329

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Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece by Kostas Zachos,James Wiseman Pdf

Author : Rebecca Yamin,Karen Bescherer Metheny
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0870499203

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Landscape Archaeology by Rebecca Yamin,Karen Bescherer Metheny Pdf

As the editors note, "This volume includes many searching looks at the landscape, not just to understand ourselves, but to understand the context for other peoples' lives in other times, to unravel the landscapes they created and explain the meanings embedded in them.".

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:254491714

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Landscape Archaeology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jaqueline Rossignol,LuAnn Wandsnider
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489924506

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Space, Time, and Archaeological Landscapes by Jaqueline Rossignol,LuAnn Wandsnider Pdf

The last 20 years have witnessed a proliferation of new approaches in archaeolog ical data recovery, analysis, and theory building that incorporate both new forms of information and new methods for investigating them. The growing importance of survey has meant an expansion of the spatial realm of traditional archaeological data recovery and analysis from its traditional focus on specific locations on the landscape-archaeological sites-to the incorporation of data both on-site and off-site from across extensive regions. Evolving survey methods have led to experiments with nonsite and distributional data recovery as well as the critical evaluation of the definition and role of archaeological sites in data recovery and analysis. In both survey and excavation, the geomorphological analysis of land scapes has become increasingly important in the analysis of archaeological ma terials. Ethnoarchaeology-the use of ethnography to sharpen archaeological understanding of cultural and natural formation processes-has concentrated study on the formation processes underlying the content and structure of archae ological deposits. These actualistic studies consider patterns of deposition at the site level and the material results of human organization at the regional scale. Ethnoarchaeological approaches have also affected research in theoretical ways by expanding investigation into the nature and organization of systems of land use per se, thus providing direction for further study of the material results of those systems.

Author : Adam T. Smith,Rouben S. Badalian
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Archaeological surveying
ISBN : UOM:39076002896814

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The Foundations of Research and Regional Survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia by Adam T. Smith,Rouben S. Badalian Pdf

Until recently, the South Caucasus was a virtual /terra/ /incognita/ on Western archaeological maps of southwest Asia. The conspicuous absence of marked places, of site names, toponyms, and topography gave the impression of a region distant, unknown, and vacant. The Joint American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies (Project ArAGATS) was founded in 1998 to explore this terrain. Our investigations were guided by two overarching goals: to illuminate the social and political transformations central to the regions unique (pre)history and to explore the broader intellectual implications of collaboration between the rich archaeological traditions of Armenia (former U.S.S.R.) and the United States. This volume provides the first encompassing report on the ongoing studies of Project ArAGATS, detailing the general context of contemporary archaeological research in the South Caucasus as well as the specific context of our regional investigations in the Tsaghkahovit Plain of central Armenia. The book opens with detailed examinations of the history of archaeology in the South Caucasus, the theoretical problems that currently orient archaeological research, and a comprehensive reevaluation of the material bases for regional chronology and periodization. The work then provides the complete results of our regional investigations in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, including the findings of the first systematic pedestrian survey ever conducted in the Caucasus. Thanks to the results presented in this volume, and Project ArAGATSs ongoing excavations in the area, the Tsaghkahovit Plain is today the best known archaeological region in the South Caucasus. The present volume thus provides archaeologists with both an orientation to the prehistory of the South Caucasus and the complete findings of the first phase of Project ArAGATSs field investigations.

Author : A. G. Sagona,Michael Abramischwili
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9042918004

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Archaeology in Southern Caucasus by A. G. Sagona,Michael Abramischwili Pdf

The land of Georgia, nestled in the eastern corner of the Black Sea, has assumed a certain fabled status, as indeed has much of the territory of southern Caucasus. To the Graeco-Roman mind, Georgia was perceived as the end of all the earth where magic, sea travel, exoticness, and many more concepts besides combined to conjure up a mythical land in the imagination of the ancients. For many decades now the work of local archaeologists has brought into sharper focus these frontier societies. Whether through the excavation of settlements or burials, hill forts or cave sites, the antiquity of Georgia is now more tangible. Nonetheless, barriers remain in fully appreciating the richness of Georgia's cultural heritage. Language and a limited amount of accessible literature have precluded a wider readership. This volume of collected essays, ranging from the earliest settlements to the Medieval Period, is seen as a contribution to the dissemination process. The twenty-five papers - for the most part brief and heavily illustrated - provide a useful introduction to recent archaeological investigations in the land of Georgia.

Author : Simon Edward Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 9042923504

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A Promethean Legacy by Simon Edward Connor Pdf

In this work, the author presents an original analysis of palaeoecological and archaeological data from Southern Georgia, demonstrating how past societies and environments interacted in this region of high biodiversity and ancient culture. New pollen records, including the first fire histories for the Caucasus region, are analysed using novel statistical techniques, providing insights into the region's climatic and vegetation history that challenge preconceived notions about the evolution of Georgia's diverse landscapes. Readers with an interest in the region's archaeology will find the synthesis of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data in the chapter on human impact to be of great value, whereas those interested in Georgia's biogeography will find in the text and appendix a wealth of information, much of which has never before appeared in the English language. The text is thoroughly illustrated, including maps and descriptive notes on the present and past distribution of each of the major pollen types and vegetation units.

Author : Effie-Fotini Athanassopoulos,LuAnn Wandsnider
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1931707731

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Mediterranean Archaeological Landscapes by Effie-Fotini Athanassopoulos,LuAnn Wandsnider Pdf

The Mediterranean landscape record is recognized for its length and richness and the opportunity it offers to study the interaction between humans and their landscape. This volume explores a variety of current archaeological issues in the context of specific landscapes from southern Spain through Greece and Cyprus to Jordan and from antiquity to recent times. Over the last 25 years, researchers have initiated a dramatic expansion in theoretical approaches--both anthropological and classical. Over the same time span, a huge volume of field survey projects has been carried out in the Mediterranean arena. The contributors to Mediterranean Archaeological Landscapes take stock of what has been learned, identify lacunae, and consider new approaches to our understanding of the rich surface landscape record of the Mediterranean. Their goal is to explore theoretically diverse interpretative themes and the methods that make those approachable.