THURSDAY JANUARY 20TH, 2022
CHAIR Elisabetta BOARETTO
(Scientific Archaeology Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science)
9:30 - 09:50 Maria DEL VALLE OJEDA CALVO (Prorettrice alla Ricerca Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Giovanni VIAN (Direttore del Dipartimento Studi Umanistici Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Welcome greetings
09:50 - 10:10 Elena ROVA - The SPIN-2 FRAC-SISCANEA project: an introduction
10:10 - 10:30 Flavia AMATO - FRAC-SISCANEA project: the general framework and a synthesis about the Early
Bronze Age in Shida Kartli
10:30 - 10:50 Andrea MILANESE - Results of the FRAC-SISCANEA project: The Middle Bronze and the transition
to the Late Bronze Age
10:50 - 11:10 Francesco BIANCHI - Results of the FRAC-SISCANEA project: The Late Bronze – Iron Age
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11:10 - 11:40 COFFEE BREAK
11:40 -12:00 Questions and Answers
12:00 - 12:30 Elisabetta BOARETTO - Radiocarbon chronology with a large data set: how to reduce the outliers
(paper + questions and answers)
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12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 - 15:00 Veli BAKHSHALIYEV (ONLINE) - Results of archaeological excavations in Nakhchivan Tepe (paper
+ questions and answers)
15:00 - 15:30 Bertille LYONNET, Michel FONTUGNE (ONLINE) - Mentesh Tepe and Soyuq Bulaq (Western
Azerbaijan) radiocarbon dates, from the Late Chalcolithic to the Early Bronze Age (paper + questions and
answers)
16:00 - 16:30 Giulio PALUMBI, Andrea RICCI (ONLINE) - Radiocarbon dates from the settlements of Kiçik Tepe
and Qaraçinar. Old and new data for the definition of the cultural developments of Western Azerbaijan
between the fifth and third millennium BCE (paper + questions and answers)
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16:30 - 16:40 BREAK (free)
16:40- 17:10 Sarit PAZ, Mindia JALABADZE, Elisabetta BOARETTO (ONLINE) - New radiocarbon dates from the
Kura-Araxes village of Kvatskhelebi, Shida Kartli, Georgia (paper + questions and answers)
17:10 - 17:40 Irina GAMBASHIDZE (ONLINE) - Pre-Kura-Araxes Culture Settlement of Orchosani and the
Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age chronology of Samtskhe (South-West Georgia) (paper + questions and answers)
17:40 - 18:40 Discussion
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19:30 DINNER
FRIDAY JANUARY 21ST, 2022
CHAIR Elena ROVA
(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, GISKAP-GILAP projects)
9:00-9:30 Annapaola PASSERINI, Adam SMITH - The EBA/MBA transition: integrating geographic variability
into chronology building (paper + questions and answers)
9:30-10:30 Giorgi BEDIANASHVILI, Andrew JAMIESON, Claudia SAGONA (ONLINE)
1) Early Kurgan evidence from the settlement of Rabati, Southwest Georgia: Issues of stratigraphy, absolute
dating and terminology
2) Early Kurgan-Bedeni material culture from Rabati: Cultural remains and their wider implications
(papers + questions and answers)
10:30 - 11:00 Pavel AVETISYAN, Ruben BADALYAN (ONLINE) - Corpus of radiocarbon dates of the Chalcolithic,
Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Armenia: an attempt at systematisation and interpretation (paper + questions
and answers)
11:00-11:30 Lauren RISTVET, Hilary GOPNIK, Veli BAHSHALIYEV - The Absolute Chronology of the Early Bronze
Age to the Iron Age in Northern Naxcivan (paper + questions and answers)
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11:30 - 12:00 COFFEE BREAK
12:00 - 12:30 Martin GRUBER (ONLINE) - Radiocarbon-dated burials of the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age in
Azerbaijan – a view from Karacamirli Tepe 5 (paper + questions and answers)
12:30 - 13:00 Walter KUNTNER, Sandra HEINSCH, Vakhtang LICHELI (ONLINE) - Considerations on the
chronology of the pottery of the Samtavro Culture based on the radiocarbon-dated stratigraphy of Khovle
Gora (paper + questions and answers)
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13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH
14:30-15:00 Mehmet IŞIKLI (ONLINE) - A general evaluation on radiocarbon dates from Erzurum – Pasinler
plains (paper + questions and answers)
15:00 – 16:00 Gian Maria DI NOCERA - New considerations on the Upper Euphrates chronology between the
5th and 1st millennium BC (paper + questions and answers)
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16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 -18 Final discussion