Research Catalog

Title

Landscape archaeology in Southern Caucasia : finding common ground in diverse environments; proceedings of the workshop held at 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016 / William Anderson, Kristen Hopper, Abby Robinson (eds.).

Author

International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (10th : 2016 : Vienna, Austria), issuing body.

Publication

Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschafte, [2018]

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Additional Authors

• Anderson, William (Archaeologist)
• Hopper, Kristen
• Robinson, Abby (Archaeologist)

Description

167 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans; 31 cm.

Summary

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of research projects in Southern Caucasia that apply the methodologies and approaches of landscape archaeology. Focused on understanding the interaction between humans and their environments at multiple temporal and geographic scales, these projects have made use of intensive and extensive surveys, remote sensing and GIS-based analysis, very often taking a diachronic view. Landscape Archaeology in Southern Caucasia presents and reflects on projects currently employing these fresh perspectives and techniques in the lands between the Black and Caspian Seas, including and adjacent to the Greater and Lesser Caucasus mountain ranges; this takes in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of eastern Turkey and northwestern Iran. Through the centuries, this region has been a vital zone of contact between the Near East, Anatolia and Central Asia, but has also - in large part due to its remarkable and often difficult terrain of mountains, river valleys and plains - maintained a unique and fascinating local trajectory of development.0'Landscape Archaeology in Southern Caucasia' is the product of a workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna in April 2016, which brought together scholars from around the world engaged in archaeological survey and landscape analysis in Southern Caucasia. The contributions in the volume cover a broad timescale, from the Neolithic through the medieval period and into the modern day, and deal with such themes as the relationship between past and present landscapes, heritage management, the use of remote sensing, the value of integrating historical texts and legacy data into new projects, survey methodologies, and patterns of movement.

Series Statement

Oriental and European Archaeology ; volume 8

Uniform Title

Oriental and European archaeology ; volume 8.

Subject

• Landscape archaeology > Caucasus, South > Congresses
• Archaeology > Caucasus, South > Methodology > Congresses
• Archaeology > Methodology
• Landscape archaeology
• Caucasus (mountain range)
• Caucasus, South

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Landscape Archaeology in Southern Caucasia : An Introduction / Kristen Hopper, William Anderson, Abby Robinson -- Moving in the Mountains : GIS and Mapping the Phenomenology of Travel through the South Caucasus / Lara Fabian -- Patterns of Settlement and Metallurgy in Late Bronze-Early Iron Age Kvemo Kartli, Southern Georgia / Nathaniel L. Erb-Satullo -- The Archaeological Landscape of the Hrazdan River Basin during the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age / Manuel Castelluccia -- A Survey Project on the Borderlands of Turkey, Armenia, Nakhchivan, North-western Iran : Preliminary Report of the 2014-2016 Surveys on the Middle Araxes Basin / Ayhan Yardimciel, Mehmet Ali Özdemir, Mehmet Işıklı -- Prehistory from the Ploughsoil : Interpreting Artefact Distributions from Intensive Survey in the Highlands of Samtskhe-Javakheti, Southern Georgia / William Anderson, Michelle Negus Cleary -- Phasis and its Landscape : Preliminary Report of the Archaeological Survey of the Lower Stream of the Rioni River / Davit Naskidashvili -- Samshvilde : Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Historical City of Central Transcaucasia / David Berikashvili -- Medieval Underground Shelters (Darnebi) of South-west Georgia / Abby Robinson, Giorgi Khaburzania -- Approaching Landscapes of Infrastructure: Methods and Results of the Vayots Dzor Silk Road Survey / Kathryn J. Franklin, Astghik Babajanyan -- Approaches to Understanding Provincial Structure in the Early Islamic Caucasus : Historic Landscape Characterisation in the Kura Plain / Paul Wordsworth.

Call Number

JFG 18-409

ISBN

• 9783700182047
• 370018204X

OCLC

1039998823

Conference

International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (10th : 2016 : Vienna, Austria), issuing body.

Title

Landscape archaeology in Southern Caucasia : finding common ground in diverse environments; proceedings of the workshop held at 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016 / William Anderson, Kristen Hopper, Abby Robinson (eds.).

Publisher

Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschafte, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oriental and European Archaeology ; volume 8

Oriental and European archaeology ; volume 8.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Anderson, William (Archaeologist), editor.

Hopper, Kristen, editor.

Robinson, Abby (Archaeologist), editor.

Research Call Number

JFG 18-409