End of the Kura-Araxes Phenomenon

The Chrono-Cultural Aspect of the EB/MB Transition in the South Caucasus

Edited by Ruben Badalyan Edited by Berengere Perello

Book cover: End of the Kura-Araxes Phenomenon

Extent: 356 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Ancient Near East

Series: ARAXES

Series volume number: 3

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(July 2024)

ISBN: 9782503606736

Price: $194.00

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This thematic volume focuses on the demise of the Kura-Araxes culture and the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age, a period between about 2600 and 2000 cal BC that saw the gradual disappearance of millennia-long traditions in the region. Specialists reassess the chrono-cultural attribution of several complexes in the region, together


This thematic volume focuses on the demise of the Kura-Araxes culture and the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age, a period between about 2600 and 2000 cal BC that saw the gradual disappearance of millennia-long traditions in the region. Specialists reassess the chrono-cultural attribution of several complexes in the region, together with the absolute chronology of the whole sequence. Through this approach, the volume offers a nuanced insight into the changes and continuities of a crucial period between the Early and Middle Bronze Age. The chapters gathered together here also explore the abandonment of long-established settlements, the production of lavishly endowed funerary complexes, testament to the emergence of growing inequalities in society, and the adoption of a far more mobile way of life as revealed by archaeology.

  • Edited by Ruben Badalyan
  • Edited by Berengere Perello