Description
Book SynopsisStudents 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.
Table of Contents1. 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.
