WORLD NEOLITHIC CONGRESS
SANLIURFA, TÜRKİYE

R22 - The Caucasian Neolithic

Session Organisers: Yoshihiro Nishiaki
Category: Different Neolithics
Session Abstract: In 2023, it is proposed to hold a session on the Caucasian Neolithic within the framework of the World Neolithic Congress in Turkey. The reason for this is the joint archaeological investigations done in the recent 10 years at the archeological complexes of the Neolithic period in the South Caucasus by local and foreign researchers, and as a result, a lot of new information was obtained. In the Caucasus, small conferences have been organized in several countries related to archaeological research, mainly in the South Caucasus. A large number of scientific articles and even monographs have been published in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia related to the scientific information obtained by archaeologists. Thus, at the World Neolithic Congress, the emergence of the pre-pottery Neolithic at the territory of the Caucasus in the 7th millennium BC and the main genetic roots and influence of the late pottery Neolithic which was still on progress in the 6th millennium BC are among the most relevant topics on the problem of Neolithic cultures. The role of Eastern Anatolia in the formation of the Neolithic cultures of the Caucasus and the opposite influence of the South Caucasus on Anatolia are also important part of the topic discussed here. Considering all this, joint archaeological investigations by archaeologists from Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia and other foreign specialists working with local scientists in these countries will be included in the session on the topic of the Caucasian Neolithic. The mutual comparison with the Neolithic cultures of Anatolia through the issues of the Neolithic cultures of the South Caucasus, distinguished by its local characteristics, will be the subject of discussion.

Room: J

04/11/2024
Start Time - End Time Authors Title
13:00 - 13:20 Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Farhad Guliyev, Yaqub Mammadov The last Mesolithic hunter-gatherers at Damjili Cave, west Azerbaijan, the South Caucasus
13:20 - 13:40 Solange Rigaud, Alain Queffelec, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, Véli Bakhshaliyev, Catherine Marro Personal ornaments from the South Caucasus: highlighting a hub of past cultural exchanges
13:40 - 14:00 Perle Guarino-Vignon, Johanne Adams, Maël Lefeuvre, Amélie Chimènes, Catherine Marro, Céline Bon Genetic continuities and discontinuities in the South Caucasus during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic
14:00 - 14:20 Irena Kalantaryan, Marcin Bialowarczuk Getahovit 2. New Evidence of Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Occupation in Northern Armenia
Coffee Break
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14:45 - 15:05 Zeyneb Guliyeva On the problem of the origin of Neolithic cultures in the South Caucasus and their connection with the Middle East
15:05 - 15:25 Levan Kvakhadze Kazreti Ortvala Cave New Agricultural sites
15:25 - 15:45 Liubov Golovanova, Ekaterina Doronicheva, Vladimir Doronichev, Elena Revina, Maxim Volkov, Tamara Tregub New data on the Neolithic settlement from the Elbrus region, North-Central Caucasus
15:45 - 16:05 Serhii Telizhenko Trapeze projectiles of Starobilsk-1 site in the Siverskii Donets River Basin
Coffee Break
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16:30 - 16:50 Valery Manko Taubodrakian industry of Crimea
16:50 - 17:10 Ilia Heit When Does the Neolithic End? Bayesian Chronology of Settlement Phases and Gaps in the South Caucasus and Adjacent Regions 6000-4500 cal BCE