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ORIGINS of the Maykop Culture
Topic Started: Apr 27 2018, 06:11:57 PM (29 Views)
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Maykop from the Iranian Plateau and South Central Asia instead of Mesopotamia?
"The favoured theory of Russian researchers is a migration from the south originating in the Syro-Anatolianarea, which is often mentioned in connection with the so-called “Uruk expansion”. However, serious doubts havearisen about a connection between Maikop and the Syro-Anatolian region. The foreign objects in the North Cauca-sus reveal no connection to the upper reaches of the Eu-phrates and Tigris or to the floodplains of Mesopotamia,but rather seem to have ties to the Iranian plateau and to South Central Asia."

-Kaukasus und Orient: Die Entstehung des „Maikop-­Phänomens“ im 4. Jt. v. Chr., link

Maykop from Uruk and Mesapotamia?
"At the same time, a whole range of chronological data obtained with radiocarbon analysis has established that the settlements and burial mounds of the South Caucasus containing Uruk artefact are coexistent with the Maikop culture [13: 149-153] and, accordingly, the ancient pit-grave culture and its burial mounds belong to a later period."

-Uruk Migrants in the Caucasus, link

From eastern Anatolia?
"V. A. Trifonov (2004: 58-60) in a reappraisal and comparison of the so-called royal tomb at Arslantepe with the Novosvobodnaya-phase Maikop burials, reverses the arrow of cultural transmission and borrowing and argues for an eastern Anatolian Chalcolithic origin of the Novosvobodnaya tombs, such as documented at Korucutepe."
-The Maikop Singularity: The Unequal Accumulation of Wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian Steppe?
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511605376.007

From the South Caucasus?
"Discovery of Soyugbulaq in 2004 and subsequent excavations provided substantial proof that the practice of kurgan burial was well established in the South Caucasus during the late Eneolithic [...] The Leylatepe Culture tribes migrated to the north in the mid-fourth millennium, B.C. and played an important part in the rise of the Maikop Culture of the North Caucasus."
-Excavations of Soyugbulaq Kurgans, link
Edited by ren, Apr 27 2018, 06:25:58 PM.
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