GÜRCİSTAN SHIDA KARTLI BÖLGESİNDE GEÇ KALKOLİTİK VE İLK TUNÇ ÇAĞ ÖLÜ GÖMME GELENEKLERİ

Year 2018, Issue: 1, 37 - 56, 01.03.2018

Elena Rova

Abstract

Makalede Gürcistan Shida Kartli bölgesinde Geç Kalkolitik Dönem’den İlk Tunç Çağı’nın sonuna değin ölü gömmegeleneklerinin gelişimi, özellikle Kura-Aras ve daha sonraki Erken Kurgan Dönemi Martqopi, Bedeni kültürleriçerçevesinde incelenmiştir. “Georgian-Italian Shida Kartli Archaeological Project” çatısı altında gerçekleştirilmişolan son bir revizyonunun ışığındaki bulgular ve komşu bölgeler Güney Kafkasya ve Türkiye Yukarı Fırat Havzası’ndakiçağdaşlarıyla karşılaştırarak özetlenmiştir. Karşılaştırmalar ve farklılıklar, kurganların yayılımına özel bir dikkatgöstererek MÖ 4-3. binyıllarda bölgelerarası ilişkilerin tarihi gelişiminin genel çatısı altında belirtilmiş ve analizedilmiştir.

Keywords

Mezarlıklar, Mezarlar, Shida Kartli Bölgesi, Kura-Araxes Kültürü, Bedeni Kültürü, Martqopi Kültürü, Early Kurgan Dönemi, Geç Kalkolitik Dönem, İlk Tunç Çağ

BURIAL CUSTOMS BETWEEN THE LATE CHALCOLITHIC AND THE EARLY BRONZE AGE IN THE SHIDA KARTLI REGION OF GEORGIA

Abstract

The paper analyses the development of burial customs in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia from the Late Chalcolithic until the end of the Early Bronze Age, especially focusing on the Kura-Araxes culture and on the culture Martqopi, Bedeni of the following Early Kurgan period. It summarises available evidence in the light of a recent revision carried out in the framework of the “Georgian-Italian Shida Kartli Archaeological Project” and compares it with contemporary evidence from the neighbouring regions of the Southern Caucasus and of the Upper Turkish Euphrates region. Analogies and differences are highlighted and analysed, with a special attention to the diffusion of barrow graves kurgans , in the general framework of diachronic developments in interregional relations in the 4th and 3rdmillennium BC

Keywords

Cemeteries, graves, Shida Kartli region, Kura-Araxes culture, Bedeni culture, Martqopi culture, Early

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