Investigating Cultural and Socioeconomic Change at the Beginning of the Pottery Neolithic in the Southern Caucasus: The 2013 Excavations at Hac i Elamxanli Tepe, Azerbaijan
Recent research on the Neolithic period of the southern Caucasus situates the emergence of an established food-producing economy at the beginning of the sixth millennium B.C. This article reports on the 2013 season of excavations at Haci Elamxanli Tepe, western Azerbaijan, currently one of the oldes...
| Published in: | Bulletin of ASOR |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
2015
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2015, Issue: 374, Pages: 1-28 |
| RelBib Classification: | HH Archaeology KBK Europe (East) |
| Further subjects: | B
southern Caucasus
B food production B Grain B Pottery B Excavations (archaeology) B early food-producing socioeconomy B SOCIAL settlements B Shomutepe-Shulaveri culture B Socioeconomics B Neolithic B Northern Mesopotamia |
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| Summary: | Recent research on the Neolithic period of the southern Caucasus situates the emergence of an established food-producing economy at the beginning of the sixth millennium B.C. This article reports on the 2013 season of excavations at Haci Elamxanli Tepe, western Azerbaijan, currently one of the oldest sites providing evidence of early agriculture, which represents the earliest stage of the Shomutepe-Shulaveri culture. Excavations yielded a rich archaeological record that confirmed the intensive exploitation of domesticated cereals and animals over a period ranging from ca. 5950 to 5800 cal B.C. Excavated artifact assemblages have a distinct character, differing from those of later settlements, indicating rapid cultural changes in the first half of the sixth millennium B.C. The assemblages also comprised a small number of elements reminiscent of the Pottery Neolithic traditions from the eastern wing of the Fertile Crescent, suggesting cultural contacts during the earliest stages in the development of an agricultural economy in the southern Caucasus. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5615/bullamerschoorie.374.0001 |