Mentesh Tepe, an early settlement of the Shomu-Shulaveri Culture in Azerbaijan. (22nd February 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Mentesh Tepe, an early settlement of the Shomu-Shulaveri Culture in Azerbaijan. (22nd February 2016)
- Main Title:
- Mentesh Tepe, an early settlement of the Shomu-Shulaveri Culture in Azerbaijan
- Authors:
- Lyonnet, Bertille
Guliyev, Farhad
Bouquet, Laurence
Bruley-Chabot, Gaëlle
Samzun, Anaïck
Pecqueur, Laure
Jovenet, Elsa
Baudouin, Emmanuel
Fontugne, Michel
Raymond, Pascal
Degorre, Emeline
Astruc, Laurence
Guilbeau, Denis
Le Dosseur, Gaëlle
Benecke, Norbert
Hamon, Caroline
Poulmarc'h, Modwene
Courcier, Antoine - Abstract:
- Abstract: Excavations at Mentesh Tepe, western Azerbaijan, have unearthed Neolithic levels dated to an early stage of the Shomu-Shulaveri Culture, with a specific material culture and several inhumations among which a multiple burial. At that stage, already a full domestication of plants and animals is evident. Many questions have been raised concerning the origins of this culture, and its end is also still obscure. Relations with societies in the north-Mesopotamian area have again recently been evidenced at its beginnings. Mentesh Tepe, with its exceptional succession of occupations from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age, could help providing some clues for the links between the Neolithic and the Chalcolithic periods. The site is presented here under different points of views (architecture, burials, material culture) but in a preliminary stage since many studies are still in progress. Questions are raised about the climate and the apparent absence of pre- and post-Shomu-Shulaveri Culture possibly due to silting or erosion processes linked with the mobility of the Caspian Sea level.
- Is Part Of:
- Quaternary international. Volume 395(2016)
- Journal:
- Quaternary international
- Issue:
- Volume 395(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 395, Issue 2016 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 395
- Issue:
- 2016
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0395-2016-0000
- Page Start:
- 170
- Page End:
- 183
- Publication Date:
- 2016-02-22
- Subjects:
- Neolithic -- Shomu-Shulaveri Culture -- Inhumation -- Climate change -- Caspian Sea level mobility
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Quaternary -- Periodicals
Stratigraphie -- Quaternaire -- Périodiques
551.79 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10406182 ↗
http://www.elsevier.com/journals ↗
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-international/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.02.038 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1040-6182
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- Legaldeposit
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