In the Shadow of Mountains: Our Evolving Understanding of Palaeolithic Foragers in the South Caucasus & Armenian Highlands

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The South Caucasus and Armenian Highlands preserve a rich and diverse record of Pleistocene hominin behavior spanning all major technologies, ecologies, and environments. After 30 years of interdisciplinary research by various international teams, the nature and scope of these behaviors are coming into focus. In this talk I provide a summary of recent discoveries and developments at key sites in Georgia and Armenia that highlight the relevance of the region to ongoing debates regarding the earliest expansion of hominins out of Africa, the nature of technological evolution and transitions, and hominin expansions and interactions at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic boundary. In each case, the scholarship of Steve Kuhn greatly influences the theories we employ, the questions we ask, the hypotheses we test, and the interpretations we offer.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn

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Abstract Id(s): 50225