Neolithic residential patterns in the southern Caucasus: Radiocarbon analysis of rebuilding cycles of mudbrick architecture at G?ytepe, west Azerbaijan
Neolithic residential patterns in the southern Caucasus: Radiocarbon analysis of rebuilding cycles of mudbrick architecture at G?ytepe, west Azerbaijan
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南高加索地区新石器时代的居住模式：阿塞拜疆西部 G?ytepe 泥砖建筑重建周期的放射性碳分析
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10.1016/j.quaint.2017.09.015
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发表时间：
2018
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2.2
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and T. Omori
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Nishiaki;Y.;F. Guliyev;S. Kadowaki;and T. Omori
新石器时代发生在公元前6000年初的南高加索地区，很可能是新石器时代社会经济从中东扩张的一部分，那里的粮食生产经济至少在几千年前就已经建立。然而，当地的适应和土著文化的发展也可能在这一过程中发挥了重要作用，在南高加索出现了独特的新石器时代生活方式。这项研究调查了居住系统的一个可能的地方方面，参考了来自Göytepe的考古证据，Göytepe是阿塞拜疆公元前6000年早期的一个主要新石器时代定居点。使用贝叶斯分析的45个放射性碳日期从不同的职业水平，这11米厚的土堆，我们建立了一个高分辨率的年表这个解决方案。此外，主沟日期的分析，从约。5650年至5460年，显示泥砖建筑的重建周期非常短，估计平均为11.4年，这远远短于中东新石器时代泥砖建筑的预期。这一发现为研究南高加索新石器时代文化中一种特殊的居住模式提供了重要证据。为了验证这一观点，我们参考了遗址形成过程的民族考古学模型和理论。
Neolithization took place in the southern Caucasus at the beginning of the sixth millennium BC, most likely as part of the expansion of the Neolithic socioeconomy from the Middle East, where the food-production economy had been established at least a few thousand years earlier. However, local adaptation and indigenous cultural development are also likely to have played important roles in this process, by which distinct Neolithic ways of life emerged in the southern Caucasus. This study investigated one possible local aspect of the residential system, referring to archaeological evidence from Göytepe, a major Neolithic settlement of the early sixth millennium BC in Azerbaijan. Using a Bayesian analysis of 45 radiocarbon dates from different occupation levels of this 11 m thick mound, we established a high-resolution chronology of this settlement. Moreover, the analysis of the main trench dates, spanning from ca. 5650 to 5460, revealed a uniquely short rebuilding cycle for mudbrick buildings, an estimated average of 11.4 years, which is far shorter than expected for mudbrick buildings in the Neolithic of the Middle East in general. This finding provides an important piece of evidence for considering a particular type of residential pattern in the Neolithic culture of the southern Caucasus. To test that view, we refer to ethnoarchaeological models and theories of site-formation processes.