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SUMMARY:Landscapes of Death\, Landscapes of Conflict (?)
DESCRIPTION:After more than a century of Russian Imperial and Soviet r
 esearch dominated by the excavation of thousands of tumulus burials\, 
 researchers examining the Bronze Age South Caucasus have now spent two
  decades investigating how the very different archaeology of settlemen
 ts sheds light on the region's earliest political institutions and mas
 s social inequalities (ca. 3500-1150 BCE). Most of this data has emerg
 ed from the sites of the Tsaghkahovit Plain\, which have served as a m
 icro-regional laboratory for Bronze and Iron Age studies since 1998. I
 n this high elevation setting between Mt. Aragats and the Tsaghkunyats
  Range\, deep consideration of the relations between burial tumuli\, s
 ettlements\, and hilltop fortresses has enabled a clearer picture to e
 merge of the development of socially stratified polities involved in w
 arfare and the accumulation of wealth and status. But how exactly do t
 he detailed and local models of political life from Tsaghkahovit artic
 ulate with the broader dynamics that tied the residents of the South C
 aucasus into a regional ecumene with a common political vocabulary? Da
 ta from the Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey of Project ArAGATS—j
 ust south and east—are providing access points to these regional asp
 ects of society and economy. At the same time\, they are illuminating 
 the paths and stakes of political landscape archaeology more generally
 .
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