The archaeology of the Caucasus : from earliest settlements to the Iron Age /

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Author / Creator:Sagona, A. G., author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
©2018
Description:xix, 541 pages ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge world archaeology
Cambridge world archaeology.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11436634
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ISBN:9781107016590
1107016592
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • The land and its languages
  • Trailblazers: the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic foundations
  • Transition to settled life: the Neolithic
  • Far-flung networks: the Chalcolithic (5000/4800-3500 BC)
  • Encounters beyond the Caucasus: the Kura-Araxes culture and the early Bronze Age (3500-2400 BC)
  • Dolmens for the dead: the western Caucasus in the Bronze Age (3250-1250 BC)
  • The emergence of elites and a new social order (2500-1500 BC)
  • From fortresses to fragmentation: the southern Caucasus in the late Bronze through Iron Age I (1500-800 BC)
  • Smiths, warriors and womenfolk: the Koban culture of the northern Caucasus (1400-600 BC)
  • A world apart: the Colchian culture
  • The grand challenges for the archaeology of the Caucasus.