Archaeology in the borderlands : investigations in Caucasia and beyond / edited by Adam T. Smith & Karen S. Rubinson.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-269) and index.

Integrated interaction at the beginning of the Bronze Age / Philip L. Kohl -- Ancient metallurgy in the mountain kingdom / Dave L. Peterson -- On the origins of the Kura-Araxes cultural complex / Tamaz Kiguradze and Antonio Sagona -- Ripples in the stream / Mitchell S. Rothman -- Social and economic shifts in the South Caucasian Middle Bronze Age / Marina Puturidze -- Silver vessels and cylinder sealings / Karen S. Rubinson -- The emergence of sociopolitical complexity in southern Caucasia / Ruben S. Badalyan, Adam T. Smith, and Pavel S. Avetisyan -- Pre-Urartian and Urartian settlement patterns in the Caucasus, two case studies / Raffaele Biscione -- The early Iron Age in the Van region / Veli Sevin -- Recent excavations at the Urartian fortress of Ayanis / Altan Çilingiroğlu -- The Urartian transformation in the outer town of Ayanis / Elizabeth C. Stone and Paul Zimansky -- The culture of ancient Georgia in the first millennium BC and greater Anatolia / Gocha Tsetskhladze.