Investigating early husbandry strategies in the southern Caucasus: intra-tooth sequential carbon and oxygen isotope analysis of Neolithic goats, sheep, and cattle from Göytepe and Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102869
Abstract: Abstract The beginning of agriculture marks major changes in food acquisition technology in human history. In the southern Caucasus, agricultural villages emerged around 6000 cal. BC, 2000 to 3000 years later than in the Fertile Crescent despite… read more here.
Keywords: isotope; carbon oxygen; southern caucasus; oxygen isotope ... See more keywords
Between cooking and knapping in the southern Caucasus: Obsidian-tempered ceramics from Aratashen (Armenia) and Mentesh Tepe (Azerbaijan)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.10.005
Abstract: Obsidian-tempered ceramics represent a typical production of the Chalcolithic period in the southern Caucasus. Previous studies have already assessed the viability of LA-ICP-MS analysis to identify the provenance of the obsidian temper contained in the… read more here.
Keywords: mentesh tepe; armenia mentesh; tempered ceramics; aratashen armenia ... See more keywords
Late Quaternary fluvial dynamics and landscape evolution at the lower Shulaveris Ghele River (southern Caucasus)
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DOI: 10.1017/qua.2017.80
Abstract: Abstract The southern Caucasus was intensively settled through the Neolithic period to present. Studies of late Quaternary fluvial dynamics and landscape development at the lower Shulaveris Ghele River in southeastern Georgia aid understanding of the… read more here.
Keywords: quaternary fluvial; river; dynamics landscape; southern caucasus ... See more keywords