Erb-Satullo, Nathaniel L;
Jachvliani, Dimitri;
Higham, Richard;
Weber-Boer, Kathryn O'Neil;
Symons, Alex;
Portes, Ruth;
(2025)
Mega-fortresses in the South Caucasus: new data from southern Georgia.
Antiquity
, 99
(403)
pp. 150-169.
10.15184/aqy.2024.197.
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Abstract
Recent research on the organisation and growth of large settlements (both urban and non-urban) has prompted a reassessment of factors driving population aggregation. Systematic aerial and ground survey of the South Caucasus mega-fortress Dmanisis Gora, described here, contributes to the understanding of large fortress settlements in the South Caucasus (c. 1500–500 BC) as part of this wider debate. Substantial defensive walls and stone architecture in the outer settlement contrast with low-intensity occupation, possibly by a seasonally mobile segment of the population. The exceptional size of Dmanisis Gora helps add new dimensions to population aggregation models in Eurasia and beyond.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Mega-fortresses in the South Caucasus: new data from southern Georgia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2024.197 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.197 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Middle East, Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, photogrammetry, aerial survey, settlement, pastoralism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10215005 |
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