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Caucasus and the Near East in the Early Bronze Age

Nadezhda Nikolaeva

Vostok/Oriens '2013, №2

 
This article deals with the problem of migrations in the area between the Caucasus and Mesopotamia in the Early Bronze Age. These regions are linked with the leaf-shaped butted tang spears that were found both in the dolmen №1 near Novosvobodnaya in the North-Western Caucasus, in the kurgan burials in the Transcaucasian, and in the “Royal Tomb” in Arslantepe (The Eastern Turkey). In the author’s opinion the arguments against the early date of Arslantepe tomb (ca. 3000 B.C.) are supported by independent dates for the Novosvobodnaya dolmens and the Kuban-Terek Culture which were received by the correlation of chronological systems of the Central European and Near Eastern Bronze Age monuments. Linguistics and archeological data point out to the presence of the proto-Hittites and the Ancient Europeans in the Caucasus.

Keywords: Ancient Middle East, Anatolia, Arslantepe, leave-shaped butted tang spears, Early Bronze age in the Caucasus, Novosvobodnaya dolmens, Kuban-Terek culture, Kura-Araks culture, Hittites

Pages: С. 106–113

 
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