Early Bronze Age migrants and ethnicity in the Middle Eastern mountain zone
| Autor: | Mitchell S. Rothman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Cultural Characteristics
Multidisciplinary Middle East Geography Southern Levant Human migration business.industry Human Migration Ethnic group Identity (social science) Ancient history Diaspora Archaeology The Dynamics of Change in Multiethnic Societies Special Feature Wide area Bronze Age Ethnicity Humans Cooking business History Ancient |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112:9190-9195 |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
| Popis: | The Kura-Araxes cultural tradition existed in the highlands of the South Caucasus from 3500 to 2450 BCE (before the Christian era). This tradition represented an adaptive regime and a symbolically encoded common identity spread over a broad area of patchy mountain environments. By 3000 BCE, groups bearing this identity had migrated southwest across a wide area from the Taurus Mountains down into the southern Levant, southeast along the Zagros Mountains, and north across the Caucasus Mountains. In these new places, they became effectively ethnic groups amid already heterogeneous societies. This paper addresses the place of migrants among local populations as ethnicities and the reasons for their disappearance in the diaspora after 2450 BCE. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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