At the Northern Frontier of Near Eastern Archaeology: Recent Research on Caucasia and Anatolia in the Bronze Age/An der Nordgrenze der vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Neue Forschung über Kaukasien und Anatolien in der Bronzezeit
Wednesday, January 9th
h 9.00-10.30: Welcome Speeches
Carlo Carraro (Rector of Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)
Paolo Eleuteri (Humboldtian, Director of the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Ca’ Foscari
University, Venice – Italy)
Paola Nardini (Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Giacomo De Angelis (Humboldtian, Representative of the Italian Humboldt Association)
Elena Rova (Humboldtian, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice – Italy)
h 10.30-11.00 Coffee break
Chairman: W. Orthmann
h 11.00 Maurizio Tosi (Humboldtian, University of Bologna – Italy)
Home of Conflicting Diversities: Considerations on the Caucasus at the Hinge of
Continents
h 11.30 Evgenii N. Chernykh (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow – Russia)
Caucasus as the Bridge Between the Settled Farming and the Pastoral Worlds
h 12.00 Harald Hauptmann (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften – Germany)
Die Region am Oberen Euphrat in der Bronzezeit
h 12.30 Mirjo Salvini (Humboldtian, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome – Italy)
Aufstieg und Fall des Staates Urartu. Mit einem Exkurs über Hattusili I. und die
Hurriter
h 13.00 -14.15 Lunch break at the ‘Pier Dickens Inn’ Restaurant
h 14.15-14.45 Guided tour to the Ca’ Foscari Palace
SESSION 2: The Late Chalcolithic and the Transition to the Early Bronze Age
Chairman: M. Frangipane
h 15.00 Yuri Y. Rassamakin (Humboldtian, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine –
Ukraine)
the Maikop-Novosvobodnaia Culture Development (the Second Half of the 4th The
Latest Eneolithic – Early Bronze Age of the Black Sea Steppe in the Context of
Millennium BC)
h 15.25 Svend Hansen (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – Germany)
The Majkop Culture in the Northern Caucasus
h 15.50 Sergej N. Korenevskiy (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskow – Russia)
Burials of the Military Elite of the Maikop Culture and the Symbolic Meaning of
Gold and Precious Stones
h 16.15-16.45 Coffee break
SESSION 2 (continued): The Late Chalcolithic and the Transition to the Early Bronze Age
Chairman: Bertille Lyonnet (Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, Paris – France)
h 16.45 Barbara Helwing (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – Germany)
Networks of Craft and Materials in the Chalcolithic: a Comparison of Metallurgical
Evidence from Iran and the Southern Caucasus
h 17.10 Alexey Rezepkin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg – Russia)
Influence of the Near East on the Formation of the Early Bronze Age in the North
Caucasus
h 17.35 Marcella Frangipane (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ – Italy)
The Collapse of the LC Centralisation and the Rise of New Socio-political Relations
in the Upper Euphrates Region. Did the Kura-Araxes Culture play a Role?
h 18.00 Giulio Palumbi (Collegium de Lyon, Institut d'Etudes Avancées - Archéorient,
CNRS – France)
Push or Pull Factors? The Phenomenon of the Kura-Araxes ‘Expansion’ as Seen
from the Western Periphery: the Case of the Upper Euphrates Valley
h 20.00 Dinner at the ‘Osteria Do Torri’Restaurant
Thursday, January 10th
SESSION 3: The Early Bronze Age
Chairman: H. Hauptmann
h 09.00 Georgi Leon Kavtaradze (Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi – Georgia)
An Attempt at Dating the Starting Point of the Kura-Araxes Culture
h 09.25 Monica Tonussi (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice – Italy)
Salt in the Economic System of Early Transcaucasian Culture (ETC): New
Perspectives in the Interpretation of the ‘Migration’ Theory
h 09.50 Elena Rova (Humboldtian, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice – Italy)
Khashuri Natsargora: New Research about the Kura-Araxes and Bedeni Cultures in
Central Georgia
h 10.15 Ünsal Yalcin (Deutsches Bergbau Museum Bochum – Germany)
Neue Forschungen zu den frühbronzezeitlichen Königsgräbern von Alacahöyük
h 10.40 Winfried Orthmann (Universität Halle-Wittenberg – Germany)
Burial Mounds of the Martqopi and Bedeni Cultures in Eastern Georgia
h 11.05-11.30 Coffee break
SESSION 4: The Middle Bronze Age
Chairman: A. T. Ökse
h 11.30 Mikheil Abramishvili (Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi – Georgia)
The South Caucasia in the Near Eastern Bronze Age Economic System
h 11.55 Stephan Kroll (Humboldtian, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München –
Germany)
Early Middle Bronze Transition in the Urmia Basin
h 12.20 Marina Puturidze (Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi – Georgia)
On the Origins and Development of Goldsmithery of the Middle Bronze Age Trialeti
Culture
h 12.45 Gian-Maria Di Nocera (Humboldtian, Università della Tuscia,Viterbo – Italy)
The Middle Bronze Age in the Upper Euphrates: Settlement Characters and Cultural
Identity
h 13.10 -15.00 Lunch break at the ‘Pier Dickens Inn’ Restaurant
SESSION 5: The Late Bronze and the Transition to the Early Iron Age
Chairman: M. Tosi
h 15.00 Sevinc Günel (Humboldtian, Hacettepe University Beytepe, Ankara – Turkey)
Die spätbronzezeitliche Siedlung von Çine-Tepecik und ihre Bedeutung für Anatolien
h 15.25 Armagan Erkanal (Humboldtian, Hacettepe University Beytepe, Ankara – Turkey)
Panaztepe in der Spätbronzezeit
h 15.50 Stefania Mazzoni (University of Florence – Italy)
Uşaklı Höyük and the Bronze Age of Central Anatolia
h 16.15 Aynur Özfirat (Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya – Turkey)
New Fortesses of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age in the Mt. Ağrı
h 16.40 Ayşe Tuba Ökse (Humboldtian, Kocaeli University, Izmit – Turkey)
Eastern Anatolian ‘Early Iron Age’ Tribes in the Upper Tigris Region: A Cultural and
Chronological Assessment
h 17.05-17.30 Coffee break
SESSION 5 (continued): The Late Bronze and the Transition to the Early Iron Age
Chairman: M. Salvini
h 17.30 Aram Kosyan (Humboldtian, Armenian National Academy of Sciences – Armenia)
Urartu: Origins, Rise and Disintegration (towards Understanding the Urartian
Civilization)
h 17.55 Claudia Antonetti (Humboldtian, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice – Italy)
Greek Colonization in the Black Sea: Reflections on Recent Trends and
Methodologies
h 19.30 Guided tour to St. Mark’s Basilica
h 20.30 Dinner at the ‘Aquila Nera’ Restaurant
Friday, January 11th
SESSION 6: Metallurgy and Circulations of Metal Ore and Metal Objects
Chairman: E.N. Chernykh
h 09.00 Irine Gambashidze (Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi – Georgia) – Andreas
Hauptmann (Deutsches Bergbau Museum Bochum – Germany)
The Bronze Age Metallurgy in Southern Georgia: the Origin of Gold and Base Metal
Artefacts
h 09.25 Ernst Pernicka (University of Tübingen – Germany)
Prähistorische Nutzung von natürlichen Ressourcen (Kupfer, Gold, Obsidian) in
Armenien
h 09.50 Antoine Courcier (Université Paris I, Sorbonne – France)
The Metallurgical Development of the Ancient Cultures in Azerbaijan (End
6th/Beginning 5th – 1st Millennia BC): Preliminary Results of New
Archaeometallurgical Studies
h 10.15 Zviad Sherazadishvili (Tbilisi State University – Georgia)
Technical, Technological and Typological Innovations and Changes of Bronze
Weapons in South Caucasus: from the 3rd Millennium to the First Half of the 2nd
Millennium BC
h 10.40-11.10 Coffee break
SESSION 7: Long-term Developments in the Settlement System and in the Use of
Territory, Landscape Archaeology
Chairman: G.M. Di Nocera
h 11.10 Andrej B. Belinskij (GUP Nasledie – Russia) – Jörg Faßbinder (Department für
Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften Geophysik, Universität München – Germany) –
Sabine Reinhold (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – Germany)
Prehistoric Ring Enclosures in the North Caucasus and Their European Parallels
h 11.35 Sabine Reinhold (Humboldtian, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – Germany)
GIS-based Settlement Studies on the Phenomenon of Re-settling during the Late
Bronze Age from Caucasus into Anatolia
h 12.00 Attilio Mastrocinque (Humboldtian, University of Verona – Italy)
The Caucasus in the Geographic and Cosmological Conceptions of the Greeks in the
Archaic Period
h 12.30 -14.30 Lunch break at the ‘Pier Dickens Inn’ Restaurant
h 14.30-16.00: POSTER SESSION
Martina Babetto – Katia Gavagnin (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice – Italy)
Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Pottery from Natsargora, Khashuri Region (Georgia):
a Preliminary Overview
Arsen Bobokhyan (Armenian National Academy of Sciences – Armenia)
Investigation of Bronze Age in Armenia during the Post-Soviet Period
Sabina Brodbeck-Jucker (Forch – Swizerland)
Some Aspects on the Pottery from Udabno in Kakheti (Eastern Georgia)
Eleonora Carminati (Melbourne University – Australia)
The Martqhopi and Bedeni Components of the ‘Early Kurgan’ Complex in Shida
Kartli (Georgia)
Manuel Castelluccia (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ – Italy)
Between Caucasus and Iran: the Talesh Region in the Late Bronze Age – Early Iron
Age
Giulia De Nobili (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice – Italy)
The Shida Kartli Regional Survey: a Preliminary Report
Elena Devecchi (Humboldtian, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich – Germany)
The North-eastern Frontier of the Hittite Empire
Uwe Heussner1 – Andrej Belinskij2– Sabine Reinhold1– Anatolij Kantarovich3 –
Vladimir Maslov3 (1. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – Germany; 2.
GUP Nasledie – Russia; 3. Institute of Archaeology RAS Moscow – Russia)
Dendrochronology of Bronze Age Tombs from the Caucasus
Modwene Poulmarc’h – Françoise Le Mort (UMR 5133, Archéorient, Environnements et
sociétés de l'Orient ancien, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Maison de l'Orient et de la
Méditerranée, CNRS – France)
New Data on Early Bronze Age Funerary Practices in Transcaucasia: an Archaeo-
anthropological Approach
René Kunze1 – Danilo Wolf² – Andy Allenberg² – Ernst Pernicka1 – Gregor Borg² –
Harald Meller3 (1. Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen – Germany; 2. Martin-
Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg – Germany; 3. Landesamt für Denkmalpflege
und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt und Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle/Saale –
Germany)
Ushkiani: Geoarchäologische Untersuchungen um die prähistorische Goldmine von
Sotk, Armenien
Silvia Palazzo (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice – Italy)
Kingship between East and West in Mithridates Eupator
Sabine Reinhold (Humboldtian, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – Germany)
Dendrochronology of Bronze Age Tombs from the Caucasus
Stefano Spagni (University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ – Italy)
Metal Production in Central-Eastern Anatolia in the 3rd Millennium BC
Judith Thomalski (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – Germany)
Lithic Production in the Transition from Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age
Ünsal Yalçın – H. Gönül Yalçın (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – Germany)
Review on the Anthropomorphic Figurines of the Early Bronze Age Royal Tombs
from Alacahöyük
Arianna Sofia Zischow (Humboldt Universität Berlin – Germany)
Caucasian Bronze Belts in Context
h 16.00-16.30 Coffee break
h 16.30-18.00: General discussion and plans for future cooperation. Concluding remarks.
Saturday, January 12th
h 10.45 Guided tour to the Armenian Monastery of St. Lazarus Island, Venice.
