Saturday, April 13, 2019
1.00 – 4.15pm
17 Apache room
Chairs: Alvaro Higueras, David Berikashvili and Isabelle Coupal
Participants:
1:00 Alvaro Higueras—Research and Heritage Management in the Southern Caucasus: Future Perspectives in Post-Soviet Scenarios
1:15 Ian Lindsay and Alan F. Greene—New Solutions to Old Challenges: Methods and Results from Project ArAGATS’ Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey (KVAS) Project, Northwestern Armenia (2015-17)
1:30 Vakhtang Licheli—10th Century BC Novelties in the Central Part of Southern Caucasus
1:45 Nathaniel Erb-Satullo—Elite Stronghold or Communal Defense? Investigating a Late Bronze-Early Iron Age Cyclopean Fortress in Kvemo Kartli, Southern Georgia
2:00 Elizabeth Fagan—Everything Old Is New Again: Considerations for Re-examining the Previously Excavated Material of Hellenistic- and Roman-Period Armenia
2:15 Lauren Ristvet—Negotiating Empires: Village Dynamics in Naxcivan, Azerbaijan
2:30 David Berikashvili—Samshvilde and the Medieval Kingdoms of Kartli
2:45 Maureen Marshall—Building Bronze Age Populations of the South Caucasus: Preliminary Bioarchaeological Results from the Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey
3:00 Aram Yardumian—Archaeology and Genetics in the South Caucasus
3:15 Isabelle Coupal—Modelling the Skeleton of Future Bioarchaeological Research in Georgia
3:30 Benjamin Irvine—Howdy Neighbour –Transgressing Borders and Peering over the Fence to Examine the Application of Isotopic Analyses to Bioarchaeology in Anatolia
4:00 Questions and Answers
Sponsored by IAC, University of Georgia (Tbilisi) and the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC)