The Archaeology of the Caucasus : From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age (Hardcover)

1. The land and its languages; 2. Traillblazers: the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic foundations; 3. Transition to settled life: the Neolithic; 4. Far-flung networks: the Chalcolithic; 5. Encounters beyond the Caucasus: the Kura-Araxes culture and the early Bronze Age; 6. Dolmens for the dead: the Western Caucasus in the Bronze Age; 7. The emergence of elites and a new social order; 8. From fortresses to fragmentation: the Southern Caucasus in the Late Bronze Age through Iron Age I; 9. Smiths, warriors and womenfolk: the Koban culture of the Northern Caucasus; 10. A world apart: the Colchian culture; 11. The grand challenges for the archaeology of the Caucasus.