Università Ca' Foscari,
Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Supported by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Humboldt Kolleg International
Conference, Venice, 9-11/01/2013
At the Northern Frontier of
Near Eastern Archaeology: Recent Research on Caucasia and Anatolia in the
Bronze Age
Università Ca' Foscari
Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, 2012
Organised
by Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Elena Rova (Organiser), Monica Tonussi
(Scientific Secretary)
Thursday,
January 10th
SESSION 3: The
Early Bronze Age
Chairman: H. Hauptmann
Abstracts
[p. 10]
Kavtaradze, Giorgi Leon
Ivane Javakhishvili
Institute of History & Ethnology,
Tbilisi State University
– Georgia
An Attempt at Dating the
Starting Point of the Kura-Araxes Culture
The
term ‘Kura-Araxes culture’ is not correct. This culture covers a much larger
area than the land between the two Transcaucasian rivers, the Kura and the
Araxes; indeed it covers an important part of the Middle East i.e. Eastern
Anatolia, Cilicia, the Levant and north-western Iran. However, Transcaucasia is
generally accepted to represent the core area of the initial formation of the
Kura-Araxes culture. The fact of the Transcaucasian origin of the Kura-Araxes
culture and its later spread to the Middle East, where archaeological strata
are more accurately dated than in Transcaucasia, gives us a favourable
opportunity to determine the starting date of this culture in Transcaucasia.
The dating of the first obvious signs of the Kura-Araxes culture found in situ
in the layers of local cultures of the Middle East represents the terminus ante
quem for similar and antedating archaeological artefacts of Transcaucasian
Kura-Araxes culture. An overview of evidence from chronologically relevant
layers allows us to put the starting date of the Kura-Araxes culture of Transcaucasia
somewhere during the first half of the 4th millennia B.C.; in fact it was
contemporary with the Middle Uruk period. The preceding period of time belongs
to the still unsolved problem of interrelation between the Caucasian
Chalcolithic and Uruk cultures.
See, also, as a Power-Point
version: http://www.scribd.com/doc/122447957/An-Attempt-at-Dating-the-Starting-Point-of-the-Kura-Araxes-Culture-by-Giorgi-L-Kavtaradze
Video
(link): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJYJWRXcQ-0
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