Caucasus

With contributions by: Joni Apakidze, Pavel Avetisyan, Ruben Badalyan, Arsen Bobokhyan, Janos Dani, Jörg Fassbinder, Irina Gambashidse, Svend Hansen, Barbara Helwing, Mark Iserlis, Bakhtiyar Jalilov, Catherine Marro, Najaf Müseibli, Goderzi Narimanishvili, Giulio Palumbi, Jurij Piotrovskij, Juri Rassamakin, Natalia Shishlina, Thomas Stöllner, Vajk Szeverenyi, Levan Tchabashvili, Victor Trifonov

• Wolfgang DavidVorwortLiane Giemsch and Svend HansenIntroduction Catherine Marro, Veli Bakhshaliyev, Francois-Xavier Le Bourdonnec and Marie OrangeA Multi-Directional Bridge? The Geo-Strategic Significance of Nakhchivan during the Late Chalcolithic (4500-3500 BCE) Svend HansenAxes and Metal Deposits in the Caucasus from the 5th to the 2nd Millennium BCE Pavel Avetisyan, Boris Gasparyan and Arsen BobokhyanMetal and Knowledge Transfer: Armenia during the 4th and 3rd Millennia BC Thomas StolInerSakdrisi and the Gold of the Transcaucasus Najaf A. MuseibliThe Leilatepe Culture of the Late Chalcolithic in the South Caucasus Irina GambashidzeRadiocarbon Dates from the Orchosani Settlement and the Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age Chronology of Samtskhe (South-West Georgia) Yurii Yu. PiotrovskiiThe Maikop Kurgan (Oshad): A Modern View Bakhtiyar M. JalilovNew Burial Traditions and Early Kurgan Cultures in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Azerbaijan Viktor A. Trifonov, Natal'ya I. Shishlina and Peter HommelA New Type of Early Bronze Age Maikop Culture Tombs in the North Caucasus Yurii Yu. RassamakinBetween the Don and the Danube: The Phenomenon of the Zhivotilovka-Volchanskoe Type of Burials at the Turn of the Late Eneolithic and the Early Bronze Age in the Northern Black Sea Steppe Ruben BadalyanFrom Homogeneity to Heterogeneity. The Periodization and Chronology of Kura-Araxes: The View from Armenia Mark IserlisResisting Innovation: Kura-Araxes against the Potter's Wheel Giulio PalumbiThe 'Royal Tomb' at Arslantepe and the 3rd Millennium BC in Upper MesopotamiaJanos Dani and Vajk SzeverenyiArchaeological Evidence for Steppe and Caucasian Connections in the Carpathian Basin between the 4th and mid-3rd Millennia BC - Is There a 'Yamnaya Package'?Joni ApakidzeThe Eastern Black Sea Area in the 3rd Millennium BC - Knowledge and Technological InnovationsGoderdzi Narimanishvili, Nino Shanshashvili and Dimitri NarimanishviliTrialeti Culture: Life, Death and Processional Roads to Eternity Barbara HelwingSouth Caucasia and the East in the Mirror of Imagery: Bronze Age Elite Networks from the Southern Caucasus to the Oxus River and the Persian Gulf Levan TchabashviliOn the Possible Contacts between the South Caucasus and the Aegean World in the Bronze Age, with the Example of the Trialeti Culture Jorg W.E. Fassbinder, Florian Becker, Sandra Hahn and Mandana ParsiArchaeological Geophysics: Case Studies from Bronze Age/Iron Age Sites in the Alazani and Shiraki Plains, Kakheti, Georgia