Systemizing the Past : : Papers in near Eastern and Caucasian Archaeology Dedicated to Pavel S. Avetisyan on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday.

• Author: Grekyan, Yervand.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bobokhyan, Arsen.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (506 pages)

Dedicated to Pavel Avetisyan, a leading modern Armenian archaeologist with wide international recognition, 36 contributions take the reader to the fascinating world of Caucasian archaeology. The volume demonstrates the essential role of the region in shaping the prehistoric cultural landscape of the Ancient Near East.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents Page -- Foreword -- 'Axe-Bull': An Iron-Age Iconic Anagram -- Levon Abrahamian -- Armenian Standing Stones as an Object of Archaeological Study* -- Hayk Avetisyan, Artak Gnuni, Levon Mkrtchyan and Arsen Bobokhyan -- Neolithization of Armenia: General Trends and Patterns of Development -- Ruben Badalyan and Armine Harutyunyan -- Groups of Three Deities in Middle and Neo-Assyrian Times -- Felix Blocher -- Water Management in Ancient Armenia: Problems and Perspectives -- Tork Dalalyan, Roman Hovsepyan, Levon Abrahamian, Arsen Bobokhyan and Boris Gasparyan -- The Archaeological Site of Garni, Armenia. Pre-Arsacid Archaeological Evidence and an Urartian Inscription of Argišti on a Vishap -- Arsen Bobokhyan -- Artur Petrosyan -- Boris Gasparyan -- Mirjo Salvini -- Onofrio Gasparro -- Roberto Dan -- The Kurtan Belt -- Michael Herles -- Ruben Davtyan -- Achaemenid Habitats in Beniamin II (Shirak, Armenia) from the End of the 6th Century BC to the End of the 4th Century BC -- Felix Ter-Martirossov† -- François Fichet de Clairfontaine -- Stéphane Deschamps -- New Findings on Urartian Rock-Cut Tomb in Mazgirt/Kaleköy Fortress* -- Serkan Erdoğan -- Dalarik-1: A New Lower Paleolithic Cave Site in the Republic of Armenia -- Ani Adigyozalyan, Hayk Haydosyan and Soseh Aghaian -- Ariel Malinsky-Buller -- Artur Petrosyan -- Boris Gasparyan -- Dmitri Arakelyan -- Ellery Frahm -- Jennifer Sherriff -- Makoto Arimura -- Masha Krakovsky -- Phil Glauberman -- Samvel Nahapetyan -- Teo Karampaglidis -- The Tušpa Mound Columned Hall -- Bülent Genç -- Erkan Konyar -- Climate Change and the Transition from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age in the Armenian Highland -- Yervand Grekyan -- A Prehistoric Aggregated Cell Structure at 2850 m asl on Mount Aragats, Armenia -- Alessandra Gilibert -- Arsen Bobokhyan -- Pavol Hnila.

Ceramic Technology at the Kura-Araxes I and II Site of Khizanaant Gora, Shida Kartli, Georgia -- Mark Iserlis -- Raphael Greenberg -- Inscribed and Seal-Impressed Clay Finds from the Urartian Fortress of Çavuştepe -- Kenan Işık -- Rıfat Kuvanç -- Iron Age Pottery from Metsamor. New Observations Based on Assemblage Discovered in 2019 Season -- Mateusz Iskra -- Tigran Zakyan -- Urartian Priestesses, How Important They Were? Some Observations of the Iconographic Features -- Krzysztof Jakubiak -- Getahovit - 2 Cave in the Middle Ages -- Irena Kalantaryan and Astghik Babajanyan -- Shaft Hole Axes of Stone and Metal from the Checon Settlement of the Maikop-Novosvobodnaya Community* -- Aleksandr I. Yudin -- Sergey N. Korenevsky -- Hatti and Išuwa: Anatolians in the Upper Euphrates Valley -- Aram Kosyan -- The Fortress of Aramus in the Early Iron Age -- Hayk Avetisyan -- Sandra Heinsch -- Walter Kuntner -- Woven Traces: Notes from the 2017 and 2018 Excavation Seasons at Masis Blur -- Alan Farahani -- Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky -- New Evidence from the Necropolis of Karashamb: Excavations of the Tomb no. 444 -- Varduhi Melikyan and Artak Hakhverdyan -- Who were the Caucasian Owners of the Mitannian Cylinder Seals? -- Goderdzi Narimanishvil and Nino Shanshashvili -- Archaeological Prospection in the Ararat Valley - Drilling into the History of Ancient Artaxata, Armenia -- Achim Lichtenberger -- Cornelius Meyer -- Mkrtich Zardaryan -- Nikolaas Noorda -- Torben Schreiber -- A Middle and Late Bronze Age Settlement in Armenia: the Aggregated Cells of Arteni -- Aurélien Creuzieux -- Bérengère Perello, Christine Chataigner, Olivier Barge -- Irena Kalantaryan, Karen Azatyan, Roman Hovsepyan -- 'Axe-Bull' - Order of the Thunder God* -- Armen Y. Petrosyan.

Overlooking the River Hrazdan Valley: The Fortified Site of Tghit in the Tsaghkunyats Mountains, Kotayk Region, Armenia* -- Artur Petrosyan -- Boris Gasparyan -- Onofrio Gasparro -- Priscilla Vitolo -- Roberto Dan -- From Landjik to Dvin: Armenian Evidence of Decapitation from Prehistory to the Mediaeval Era -- Daniel Thomas Potts -- Reconstructing the Lifeways of the Kura-Araxes* -- Mitchell S Rothman -- Middle Bronze Age Ceramics in Macro and Micro Perspectives* -- Karen S. Rubinson -- Monitoring Heritage At Risk: Caucasus Heritage Watch and the Armenian Monuments of Nagorno-Karabakh -- Adam T. Smith -- Ian Lindsay -- Lori Khatchadourian -- Tigran the Great and Mithradates Eupator: Two Parallel Kings of Kings? -- Giusto Traina -- Modelling of Bronze and Iron Age Monuments at the Northwestern Slopes of Mount Aragats based on a Case Study of Lernakert* -- Benik Vardanyan and Levon Mkrtchyan -- The Early Medieval Complex of Agarak -- Nora Yengibaryan and Lilit Ter-Minasyan -- Women in Urartian Rituals -- Nora Yengibaryan.