Armenia, Caucasus and Central Asia
Research 2016
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abstract
This volume of the "Eurasiatica" series brings together articles devoted to Armenia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, reflecting some of the lines of research on these areas carried out in recent years by Italian scholars from various scientific fields. The volume thus contains studies of an archaeological, philological, literary, socio-economic and political nature that signal the growing interest of Italian research in these regions, characterised as much by a historical-cultural tradition of great antiquity and richness as by an ever-increasing relevance in contemporary political balances.
Russian Literature • Southern Caucasus • Chalcolithic • Scythian • Kazakh Civil Society • Armenian Dominican Friars • Armenian Catholic Church History • Russian chronicles • Dedjakov • LA-ICP-MS analysis • History of Armenian printing • Tetjakov • Lesser Caucasus • Civil Society Empowerment • Fazil Iskander • Georgia • Political development in the Post-Soviet space • Chikiani • Aral Sea • Central Asia • Herodotus • Kurgan • Archaeology • Funerary Ritual • Methodology • Obsidian outcrops • Abkhazian culture • Bronze Age • Mt • Obsidian geochemistry • Alans • Armenian version of the Dominican Breviary • State-Civil Society Relations • Dataset • Water