Archaeology in the Borderlands
Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond
edited by Adam T. Smith and Karen S. Rubinson
Paperback (Published)
(February 2004)
ISBN: 9781931745017
8.46 x 10.94 inches
Price: $14.95
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Traditionally portrayed as either a well-trod highway linking southwest Asia and the Eurasian Steppe or an isolated periphery of the ancient world. This book re-examines traditional archaeological work in the region by an international group of scholars from the Caucasus, its neighbors, Europe, and the United States.
Set on a broad isthmus between the Black and Caspian Seas, Caucasia has traditionally been portrayed as either a well-trod highway linking southwest Asia and the Eurasian Steppe or an isolated periphery of the political and cultural centers of the ancient world. Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond critically re-examines traditional archaeological work in the region, assembling accounts of recent investigations by an international group of scholars from the Caucasus, its neighbors, Europe, and the United States. The twelve chapters in this book address the ways archaeologists must re-conceptualize the region within our larger historical and anthropological frameworks of thought, presenting critical new materials from the Neolithic period through the Iron Age. Challenging traditional models of economic, political, cultural, and social marginality that read the past through Cold War geographies, Archaeology in the Borderlands provides a new challenge to long dominant interpretations of the pre-, proto-, and early history of Eurasia, opening new possibilities for understanding a region that is critical to regional order in the post-Soviet era. This collection represents the first attempt to grapple with the problems and possibilities for archaeology in the Caucasus and its neighboring regions sparked by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of independent states.
Adam T. Smith is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and co-director of the joint Armenian-American Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies (ArAGATS). Karen S. Rubinson is a research associate in the department of anthropology at Barnard College, where she is director of the Project for Archaeological Exchange.
- Edited by Karen S. Rubinson
- Edited by Adam T. Smith
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Recent advances in the Archaeology of the Northern Andes
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Ceramics of Postclassic Cholula, Mexico
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Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco
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