Nino Shanshashvili – Aegean World and South Caucasus. Cultural Relations in the Bronze Age (2016)

Автор: Nino Shanshashvili
Название книги: Aegean World and South Caucasus. Cultural Relations in the Bronze Age
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Археология
Страницы: 224
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

The Aegean world got directly acquainted with the Southern Caucasus at the early stage of the Late Bronze Age. As it seems the Aegean world got interested in the Caucasus especially in the epoch preceded the Trojan war and this interest was reflected in the history of argounats voyage to Colchis. The researches have shown that the direct contacts between the Aegean world and the Southern Caucasus were established at the early stage of the Late Bronze Age.
The Trojan war has a particular importance in these relationships. After this war the door of Pontus Sea was widely open for the Aegean world, which promoted the distribution of Greek culture in the South-Western Caucasus. Subsequently, this relationship became more intensive, especially prominently in the epoch of Greek colonization. Against the background of the argonauts voyage and Trojan war it is very important to determine the role and place of the Southern Caucasus. The fundamental changes took place in the 13th millennium B.C. At the very beginning of the century the two strongest countries – Egypt and Hittite kingdom opposed resulting in battle of Kadesh in the fifth year of Pharaoh Ramses II reign (in 1274 B.C). Some researchers place the Trojan war between 1260-1230 B.C., which makes closer these two phenomena. In the same century the movement of sea people began, which penetrated Anatolia and Egypt. Despite this epoch appears to be the epoch of Hittite kingdom strength and they had great military-political interests, they were not seen in the confrontation of Achaeans and Trojans. The connection with the Hittites is not found in the archaeological materials discovered in the 2nd millennium B.C. in the Southern Caucasus. Thus, the fragment of the Southern Caucasus history which is connected with battle of Kadesh and Trojan war, is still waiting for its researcher.
To conduct the symposium within the frames of the joint Project of Shota Rustaveli Scientific Fund and Italy Scientific Research Fund “The Southern Caucasus and Aegean world” gives the opportunity to raise many interesting and important issues once more and outline the new prospects.
The goal of the given collection is to get acquainted the wide society with the reports presented at the Symposium.
Nino Shanshashvili, Goderdzi Narimanishvili. Dynamics and Nature of the Relations Between South Caucasus and Aegean World in the Bronze Age.
Massimo Cultraro. Undercurrents: Cultural Interactions Between Southern Caucasus and Northen Aegean during the Early and Middle Bronze Age.
Silvana Di Paolo. Making Distance Approachable. The Migration of Images between Ancient Near East and Caucasus in the II millennium BC.
Arsen Bobokhyan. Round about the Eya Tree: Towards South Caucasian-Aegean Interactions in the 2nd Millennium BC.
Akhundov Tufan Ishag oglu. Some data about the relations of Azerbaijan with Aegean world in the Bronze Age.
Ashot Piliposyan. Zorats Karer: Megalithic Site in Southern Armenia.
Mehmet Isikli, Gulsah Altunkainak. The Role of Eastern Anatolia in Relationships Between the Soutern Caucasus and the Aegean World: Some Metallurgical Evidence from the Highland of Erzurum-Kars.
Zurab Bragvadze. Colchis-Aegean Relations in the Middle Bronze Age.
Eliso Kvavadze, Mindia Jalabadze, Antonio Sagona. Tetritskaro (Nadarbadzevi) Burial Mound 2: Bread, Rusk and the Bedeni period.
Marina Puturidze. Some Evidences for the South Caucasian – Aegean World Relationship.
Miqayel Badalyan, Vartouhi Kzlyan, Mateusz Iskra, Arthur Mikayelyan, Hayk Kyureghyan. Odzaberd (Tsovinar): A Brief Prelimenary Report on the 2014-2015 Excavations.
Mikhael Abramishvili. South Caucasia and the Aegean before the Argonauts.
Marine Kvachadze, Goderdzi Narimanishvili. Late Bronze-Early Iron Age Beads from Trialeti.
Dimitri Narimanishvili. The Cyclopean Settlements of South Georgia and the Prospects for Its Study.
Sarit Paz. Caucasian Connections: Early Transcaucasian Migration and Diaspora at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet Kerak).