WIT 2020 I Program I PremC Online Conference

Program

Theme #1
The beginnings of vertical pastoralism in the Caucasus
Theme #2
The formation and development of mountain communities
Session 1
Introduction of Session

Catherine Marro, Giulio Palumbi, Rémi Berthon
An introduction to the archaeological settlements of Ovçular Tepesi, Kültepe I, Uçan Agil and Duzdagi (Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan)

Catherine Marro
Human diet in highland settlements

Estelle Herrscher
Isotopic evidence for the appearance of vertical herd mobility in the Southern Caucasus

Rémi Berthon, Marjan Mashkour, Adeline Vautrin, Marie Balasse
A first view of high-altitude pastoralism during the Holocene in the Samsari-Javakheti region. Fungal spore analysis of White Lake record (Tetri Tba, Samsari Ridge)

Erwan Messager, Andréa Julien, David Etienne
Session 2
Presentation of the settlements of Bavra (Georgia) and Getahovit (Armenia)

Christine Chataigner
Presentation of the settlement of Godedzor (Armenia)

Giulio Palumbi
Early pastoral activities in the Armenian and Georgian highlands

Jwana Chahoud, Adrian Balasescu
Prehistoric pastoralism at the high mountain site of Karmir Sar, Armenia

Pavol Hnila
Vertical mobility in the Late Bronze Age Tsaghkahovit Plain: A simple question with complicated answers

Hannah Chazin
Agriculture and plant economy at high altitude sites in Georgia: three sites from Samtskhe-Javakheti

Catherine Longford, Alexia Decaix, Lucie Martin

Networking session
(2 online rooms will be available for open discussions)
Session 3
Archaeology at the Frontiers: An Overview of the Settlement, Stratigraphy and Architecture at Rabat and its Regional Setting

Giorgi Bedianishvili, Andrew Jamieson and Claudia Sagona
The date and meaning of the vishaps at Karmir Sar, Armenia

Alessandra Gilibert
Ancient mountain communities in the Lesser Caucasus: contribution of rock art studies from Syunik highlands in southeastern Armenia

Ani Danielyan
Vertical pastoralism in the North Caucasus? On the dynamics of lowlands and uplands in the economic systems of Bronze Age populations at the northern flank of the Caucasus mountains

Sabine Reinhold
Session 4
Networking session
(2 online rooms will be available for open discussions)

Theme #3
Mobility and the exploitation of natural resources
Session 5
Obsidian consumption at the salt mine of Duzdağı (Babek district, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan)

M. Orange, F.-X. Le Bourdonnec
Duzdağı during the Kura-Araxes period: a pastoralist hub? A preliminary cross analysis of ceramic and obsidian data

C. Marro, M. Orange
Mapping herd mobilities and evaluating their role in exchange networks, a preliminary view from Ovçular Tepesi

R. Berthon, Ch. Claude, G. Gadebois, S. Bouzid, J. Giblin
The Chalcolithic and Kura-Araxes Metallurgy of Ovçular Tepesi and KültepeI: Continuity or Change ?

N. Gailhard
The role of the pastoral lifestyle in the formation of the Early Chalcolithic Age culture of Nakhchivan (Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan)

V. Bakhshaliyev
Session 6
Pastoral activities and the search for mineral resources: Insights and new approaches from Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Transcaucasus

Th. Stöllner, I. Gambaschidze, R. Berthon, G. Gogotchuri, F. Klein, A. Vautrin
Hunting with desert kites on the foothills of Mount Aragats

O. Barge
Of men and houses: vertical stratification in NW-Iran in the 6-5th millennium

J. Thomalsky
Land-use and the exploitation of natural resources by semi-nomadic groups in contemporary South-Eastern Anatolia

S. Sarialtun

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