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Subjects:

Caucasus -- Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Caucasus.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 19, 2017).

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Cambridge University Press

ISBN:

9781139061254
1139061259
9781108523516
110852351X

Publisher Number:

99977705699

Web link:

The George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund Home Page

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.