Author: Barbara Helwing Publisher: Gangemi Editore spa ISBN: 8849243774 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages :
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The 6th millennium BCE sees the first sedentary settlements in the southern Caucasus, with small scale farming communities established in various pockets of landscape in the lowlands of the Araxes and Kura rivers. The paper takes a micro-historical approach to explore the variability within the archaeological record deriving from new research in the Mil Steppe of southern Azerbaijan Republic and compares that with the published record from contemporary Hajji Firuz in Northwestern Iran. This allows tracing hidden patterns relating to cultural traditions and habits in the use of space, preparation of food and material culture in a close-up on similarities and differences between these two closely related areas, making individual pathways and strategies visible that distinguish human behaviour in these two areas. | Il VI millennio BCE vede la comparsa dei primi insediamenti stabili nel Caucaso meridionale, con comunità basate sull’agricoltura su piccola scala, insediate in varie aree nelle pianure dei fiumi Arax e Kura. Questo lavoro utilizza un approccio micro-storico per esplorare la variabilità all’interno del record archeologico derivante da nuove ricerche nella Mil Steppe della Repubblica dell’Azerbaijan meridionale e per confrontarlo con i dati già editi del contemporaneo sito di Hajji Firuz nell’Iran nord-occidentale. Ciò consente di individuare schemi nascosti relativi alle tradizioni e alle abitudini culturali nell’uso dello spazio, nella preparazione del cibo e nella cultura materiale, mettendo in rilievo le somiglianze e le differenze tra queste due aree strettamente correlate, rendendo visibili percorsi e strategie individuali che distinguono il comportamento umano in queste due aree.
Author: Tevekkül Aliyev Publisher: Gangemi Editore spa ISBN: 884924374X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 196
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“HUMANIZATION OF BUILDINGS. THE NEOLITHIC RITUAL OF BURYING THE SACRED” Mehmet Özdogan TO WEAVE OR NOT TO WEAVE? TEXTILE PRODUCTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TECHNOLOGICAL HABITUS IN CYPRIOTE PREHISTORY Luca Bombardieri, Giulia Muti SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT: A COMPARISON OF 6TH MILLENNIUM BCE COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHERN CAUCASIA AND NORTHWESTERN IRAN Barbara Helwing, Tevekkül Aliyev CHRONOLOGY (AND CHRONOLOGIES) OF THE KURA-ARAXES CULTURE IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH THROUGH BAYESIAN ANALYSIS Annapaola Passerini, Elena Rova, Elisabetta Boaretto A “FLAME AND FROND” SCHOOL IVORY PLAQUE FROM THE NEO-HITTITE EXCAVATIONS AT ARSLANTEPE/MELID. REGIONALISM AND COMMUNITIES IN IRON AGE ANATOLIA FEDERICO MANUELLI, HOLLY PITTMAN RECENSIONI / REVIEWS
Author: A. Bernard Knapp Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 131619406X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 1677
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The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss in depth a range of topics that motivate and structure Mediterranean archaeology today, including insularity and connectivity; mobility, migration, and colonization; hybridization and cultural encounters; materiality, memory, and identity; community and household; life and death; and ritual and ideology. The volume's broad coverage of different approaches and contemporary archaeological practices will help practitioners of Mediterranean archaeology to move the subject forward in new and dynamic ways. Together, the essays in this volume shed new light on the people, ideas, and materials that make up the world of Mediterranean archaeology today, beyond the borders that separate Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Author: Silvia Balatti Publisher: Harrassowitz ISBN: 9783447108003 Category : Assyriology Languages : en Pages : 0
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Since Prehistory, communities principally engaged in herding activities have occupied the intermontane valleys and plains of the Zagros (Western Iran). Relations, tensions and cultural exchange between the inhabitants of the mountains and the Mesopotamian plains already occurred during the Bronze Age. These contacts increased in the course of the 1st millennium BCE, as is suggested by Near Eastern and subsequently by Greek and Latin sources which provide us with numerous new names of peoples living in the Zagros. The present volume investigates the social organisation and life style of the peoples of the Zagros Mountains in the 1st millennium BCE and deals with their relationships with the surrounding environment and with the political authorities on the plains. Among these peoples, for example, were the 'fierce' Medes, breeders and purveyors of fine horses, the Manneans, who inhabited a large territory enclosed between the two contending powers of Assyria and Urartu, and the 'warlike' Cosseans, who bravely attempted to resist the attack of Alexander the Great's army. The Southern Zagros Mountains, inhabited by mixed groups of Elamite and Iranian farmers and pastoralists, were also of key importance as the home of the Persians and the core area of their empire. Starting from Fars, the Persians were able to build up the largest empire in the history of the ancient Near East before Alexander. The interdisciplinary approach adopted in this study, which juxtaposes historical records with archaeological, zooarchaeological, palaeobotanical and ethnographic data, provides a new, holistic and multifaceted view on an otherwise little-known topic in ancient history.
Author: Yoshihiro Nishiaki Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1789698790 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 384
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This volume publishes the first round of fieldwork and research (2008-2013) at Göytepe, a key site for understanding the emergence and development of food-producing communities in the South Caucasus. Results include findings relating to chronology, architecture, technology, social organisation, plant and animal exploitation, and more.
Author: Collectif Publisher: MOM Éditions ISBN: 2356681779 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 358
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The book compiles a portion of the contributions presented during the symposium “Urbanisation, commerce, subsistence and production during the third millennium BC on the Iranian Plateau”, which took place at the Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée in Lyon, the 29-30 of April, 2014. The twenty papers assembled provide an overview of the recent archaeological research on this region of the Middle East during the Bronze Age. The socio-economic transformation from rural villages to towns and nations has prompted many questions into this evolution of urbanisation. What was the impact of interactions between cultures in the Iranian Plateau and the surrounding regions (Mesopotamia, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, Indus Valley)? What was the overall context during the Bronze Age on the Iranian Plateau? What was the extent and means of the expansion of the Kuro-Araxe culture? How did the Elamite Kingdom become established? What new knowledge has been contributed by the recent excavations and studies undertaken in the east of Iran? What was the influence of the Indus Valley culture, known as an epicentre of urbanisation in South Asia? What are the unique characteristics of the ancient cultures in Iran? While the urbanisation of early Mesopotamia has been the subject of much debate for several decades, this topic has only recently been raised in respect to the Iranian Plateau. This volume is the product of an international community from Iranian, European, and American institutions, consisting of recognised specialists in the archaeology of the Iranian Bronze Age. It provides an overview of the latest research, including abundant results from current on-going excavations. The current state of archaeological research in Iran, comprising many dynamic questions and perspectives, is presented here in the form of original contributions on the first emergence of towns in the Near and Middle East.
Author: Sharon R. Steadman Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195376145 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1193
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This title provides comprehensive overviews on archaeological philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the 21st century.
Author: Antonio Sagona Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107016592 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 563
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This conspectus brings together in an accessible and systematic manner a dizzy array of archaeological cultures situated between several worlds.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004387285 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 266
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The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the defining features of the Persianate world from a variety of historical perspectives.
Author: Guido Guarducci Publisher: Oxbow Books ISBN: 1789252814 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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This study analyses the social and symbolic value of the material culture, in particular the pottery production and the architecture, and the social structure of the local communities of a broad area encompassing Eastern Anatolia, the South Caucasus and North-western Iran during the last phase of the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. This broad area is known from the Assyrian texts as ‘Nairi lands’. The second part of the study, furnishes a reassessment of pottery production characteristics and theories, as well as of the socio-economic structure and issues, tied to the sedentary and mobile local communities of the Nairi lands. The study brings into focus the characteristics, the extension and the distribution of Grooved pottery, along with other pottery typologies, by providing an accompanying online catalogue with detailed descriptions and high-resolution images of the pots and sherds obtained from public and private institutions in Turkey and Armenia. Moreover, the socio-political organisation and subsistence economy issues are addressed in order to advance a possible reconstruction of the social structure of the Nairi lands communities. Particular attention is devoted to the pastoral nomad component and the role played within the Nairi phenomenon. The study includes a very large corpus of text images and high-resolution color images of the pottery of the area under examination, gathered by the author in order to offer a reliable tool and compendium.
Author: Barbara Helwing
Author: Tevekkül Aliyev
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Author: Silvia Balatti
Author: Yoshihiro Nishiaki
Author: Collectif
Author: Sharon R. Steadman
Author: Antonio Sagona
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Author: Guido Guarducci