Caucasus

Kültepe I from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. The Results of the Excavations Directed by O. A. Abibullav Between 1951 and 1964

Kültepe I is an archaeological site located on the left bank of the Nakhchivan River, some 15 km upstream the junction with the Aras River in the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan). Kültepe I is one of the few multi-period sites in the South Caucasus with a maximum of 22 m of accumulated occupational layers spreading from the Neolithic-Chalcolithic to the Early Iron Age. It is so far the earliest open-air settlement known in the territory of Nakhchivan and one of the four Neolithic-Chalcolithic settlements excavated in the Aras River Valley. The site is also renowned for...
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Tbilisi II - The Iron Age of Treligorebi, Treli and Nakubakevi

This grant is to enable publication of the final report of a series of excavations of Iron Age burials within Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia in the Caucasus. The project is jointly run with Mr. Mikhei Abramishvili, of the Georgian National Museum, who with his father, the late Rostom Abramishvili, excavated the sites in question. The sites are all anomalous compared to other Iron Age burials from the area and certain aspects of the finds...

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