Antiquity Studies



Antiquity Studies

open access | peer reviewed

Aims & Scope
The series, directed by Lucio Milano, is devoted to the studies of the ancient and late-ancient world. It is intended for hosting both publications arising from the research activities of Ca’ Foscari and publications of Italian and foreign scholars and institutions that help to highlight the academic network of national and international collaborations in the field of Classical. It is divided into four sections: History and Epigraphy; Archeology; Oriental Studies; Philology and Literature.

Permalink doi.org | e-ISSN 2610-9344 | ISSN 2610-8828 | Language en, fr, it | ANCE E220779

Subseries
Archeologia e-ISSN 2610-9344 ISSN 2610-8828
Filologia e letteratura e-ISSN 2610-9352 ISSN 2610-8836
Storia ed epigrafia e-ISSN 2610-8291 ISSN 2610-8801
Studi orientali e-ISSN 2610-9336 ISSN 2610-881X

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  • L’edilizia Kura-Araxes tra IV e III millennio: uno studio regionale
  • Sebastiano Claut
  • June 24, 2025
  • This volume presents a study of Kura-Araxes architecture in the Southern Caucasus, the cradle of the homonymous cultural phenomenon. Kura-Araxes communities, who emerged around the mid-fourth millennium BCE in the region, had a lasting impact and spread across a wide territory from northwestern Iran to eastern Anatolia, reaching the Levantine coast. A detailed analysis conducted over almost fifty settlements with more than three-hundred structures in the present states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Turkey focused on building features and building techniques adopted by these communities for one thousand years. The study highlighted a very heterogeneous situation, characterised by the use of different building materials, building plans and building dimensions – as well as construction techniques – throughout the Southern Caucasus. In spite of these various ‘formal’ aspects, Kura-Araxes buildings share a common use of the internal space, essentially composed of one or, more rarely, two/three rooms. Internal installations, not homogeneously distributed, usually consist of hearths and benches. Almost all the analysed structures are residential units, with a few possible exceptions represented by ‘shrines’, platforms, ‘wall terraces’ and fortifications. Despite the great heterogeneity of the Kura-Araxes buildings, the study verified the presence of common and persistent architectural traditions in four geographical regions, namely the Kura valley, the Georgian-Armenian highlands, the Kvemo-Kartli mountains and the Araxes valley.

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  • Wine Cultures
  • Claudia Antonetti, Bryan De Notariis, Marco Enrico
  • Oct. 8, 2024
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  • The Broken Body
  • Francesca Iannarilli
  • June 24, 2024
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  • Opitergium Necropolis
  • Marta Mascardi, Margherita Tirelli, Maria Cristina Vallicelli
  • May 30, 2023
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  • Libertatis dulcedo
  • Lorenzo Calvelli, Franco Luciani, Antonio Pistellato, Francesca Rohr Vio, Alessandra Valentini
  • Feb. 4, 2022
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  • Headscarf and Veiling
  • Roswitha Del Fabbro, Frederick Mario Fales, Hannes D. Galter
  • Aug. 30, 2021
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  • Stolen Heritage
  • Arianna Traviglia, Lucio Milano, Cristina Tonghini, Riccardo Giovanelli
  • March 31, 2021
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  • Altera pars laboris
  • Lorenzo Calvelli, Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Alfredo Buonopane
  • Dec. 11, 2019
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  • The Gift of Altino
  • Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Giovanna Gambacurta, Anna Marinetti
  • Dec. 16, 2019
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  • The Soul of Things
  • Marta Mascardi, Margherita Tirelli
  • Nov. 23, 2019
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  • Elites and Culture
  • Filippo Maria Carinci, Edoardo Cavalli
  • July 6, 2019
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  • Before the Excavation
  • Luigi Sperti, Margherita Tirelli, Silvia Cipriano
  • Nov. 20, 2018
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  • The Unwound Yarn
  • Chiara Spinazzi-Lucchesi
  • July 4, 2018





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