The Archaeology of the Caucasus - From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age

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

List of contents

1. The land and its languages; 2. Traillblazers: the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic foundations; 3. Transition to settled life: the Neolithic; 4. Far-flung networks: the Chalcolithic; 5. Encounters beyond the Caucasus: the Kura-Araxes culture and the early Bronze Age; 6. Dolmens for the dead: the Western Caucasus in the Bronze Age; 7. The emergence of elites and a new social order; 8. From fortresses to fragmentation: the Southern Caucasus in the Late Bronze Age through Iron Age I; 9. Smiths, warriors and womenfolk: the Koban culture of the Northern Caucasus; 10. A world apart: the Colchian culture; 11. The grand challenges for the archaeology of the Caucasus.

About the author

Antonio Sagona is an archaeologist of the ancient Near East, with expertise in Anatolia and the Caucasus. He has written a number of books on the subject, including Ancient Turkey (2009). He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and an Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Editor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, he teaches at the University of Melbourne.

Summary

Students of antiquity often see the ancient Caucasus as a bewildering array of cultural complexes. This book coherently brings together a vast quantity of diverse and often fragmented evidence from both sides of the frontier, encompassing the period from the earliest arrivals to the end of the early Iron Age.

Product details

• Authors: A. G. Sagona, Antonio Sagona, Antonio (University of Melbourne) Sagona, Sagona Antonio
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781107016590
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01659-0
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 258 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Cambridge World Archaeology; Cambridge World Archaeology (H; Cambridge World Archaeology; Cambridge World Archaeology (H
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Social and cultural history, Archaeology by period / region