PALUMBI , Giulio

The interpretation of the expansion of the Kura-Araxes culture has been traditionally linked to a set of migratory mechanisms that were generated in the core of Kura-Araxes cultural region. Little attention has been dedicated to the role of other processes that took place in the Kura-Araxes "periphery", and in particular to the development, in...

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The interpretation of the expansion of the Kura-Araxes culture has been traditionally linked to a set of migratory mechanisms that were generated in the core of Kura-Araxes cultural region. Little attention has been dedicated to the role of other processes that took place in the Kura-Araxes "periphery", and in particular to the development, in...

Long considered an isolated and exceptional tomb of an elite, the so-called "Royal Tomb" at Arslantepehas proven to be representative of a geographically widespread phenomenon of ' lite tombs' atthe end of the 4th millennium BC in the Upper Euphrates and Tigris valleys in Anatolia. They arecharacterised by burials in stone-lined cists,...

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Chapitre dans catalogue d'exposition. Dynamiques de formation de la culture Kuro-Araxe dans le sud du Caucase au 4éme millénaire et celles de son expansion en Anatolie, Levant et Iran au 3éme millénaire. Role du Pastoralisme specialisé dans cette expansion.

The interpretation of the expansion of the Kura-Araxes culture has been traditionally linked to a set of migratory mechanisms that were generated in the core of Kura-Araxes cultural region. Little attention has been dedicated to the role of other processes that took place in the Kura-Araxes "periphery", and in particular to the development, in...

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The encounter of the communities of the Anatolian Upper Euphrates with the Kura-Araxes cultural traditions was a long and complex process that cannot be reduced to the abrupt 'arrival' of migrant communities from East Anatolia or South Caucasus. The historical, political and cultural 'complexities' embedded in this encounter are best...

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The paper discusses pastoralism within the context of a case study at Arslantepe (Malatya) in Eastern Turkey during Period VI B1. which dates to the end of the fourth millennium BCE. This period saw significant changes in the settlement's architecture and occupation patterns following the destruction of the Uruk period's monumental palatial...

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The settlement of Godedzor is located at 1,800 m asl in the region of Syunik (south-easternArmenia). Previous studies have highlighted the strategic position of the site in connection toboth east to west and north to south routes of communication and in relation to the proximityto the main obsidian outcrops of the region. Excavations at...

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