A view from the highlands : archaeological studies in honour of Charles Burney / edited by Antonio Sagona.

Contributions in English and German.

Includes bibliographical references.

Charles Burney in the Near Eastern highlands / Altan Çi̇li̇ngi̇roǧlu and Antonio Sagona -- Charles Burney at Manchester: a few personal recollections / Roger Matthews -- Charles Burney: some selected personal reflections / M. Taner Tarhan -- The Neolithic and the highlands of eastern Anatolia / Mehmet Özdoǧan -- Activity areas and social organization within early trans-Caucasian houses at Karagündüz Höyük, Van / Gülriz Kozbe -- Salur north: an early Bronze Age cemetery in north central Anatolia / Roger Matthews -- Andirons at Urkesh: new evidence for the Hurrian identity of early trans-Caucasian culture / Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati -- Upper Mesopotamia and the Caucasus: an essay on the evolution of routes and road networks from the Old Assyrian kingdom to the Ottoman empire / Catherine Marro -- Beyond the frontiers: Muş in the Late Bronze to Roman periods / Mitchell Rothman -- Pastoral tribes and early settlements of the Van region, eastern Anatoli / Veli Sevin -- How was an Urartian fortress built? / Altan Çi̇li̇ngi̇roǧlu -- Urartian city planning at Ayanis / Elizabeth C. Stone and Paul Zimansky -- Reconstruction of the susi temple at Adilcevaz on Lake Van / Mirjio Salvini -- Bronze quivers with cuneiform inscriptions from Van-Upper Anzaf fortress / Oktay Belli -- Did Xenophon take the Aras high road? Observations on the historical geography of north-east Anatolia / Claudia Sagona -- Diverse perspectives on the Anatolian highlands / M. Taner Tarhan --

The Neolithic of Georgia / Tamaz Kiguradze and Medea Menabde -- The Neolithic and Chalcolithic phases in the Ararat plain (Armenia): the view from Aratashen / Ruben Badalyan [et al...] -- South Caucasus in the Neolithic to Early Bronze age: the question of epochs and periods / Tufan Akhundov -- Trans-Caucasian obsidian: the exploitation of the sources and their distribution / Ruben Badalyan, Christine Chataigner and Philip L. Kohl -- Archaeological sites of the Early Bronze Age in northern Azerbaijan: a gazetteer / Ideal Narimanov -- Social boundaries and ritual landscapes in late prehistoric trans-Caucasus and highland Anatolia / Antonio Sagona -- The chronology of the Caucasus during the Early Metal Age: observations from central trans-Caucasus / Giorgi L. Kavtaradze -- Urartu and the southern Caucasian political tradition / Adam T. Smith and Tiffany T. Thompson -- The search for the Late Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age transition in the Ushnu-Solduz Valley, Iran / Micahel D. Danti, Mary M. Voigt and Robert H. Dyson, Jr. -- Yanik Tepe and the early trans-Caucasian culture: problems and perspectives / Geoffrey D. Summers -- The Kangavar survey--periods VI to IV / T. Cuyler Young, Jr. -- Dinkha Tepe, Iran, and so-called Urmia Ware / Karen S. Rubinson -- Aurel Stein in Hasan Ali. Bemalte frühbronzezeitliche Keramik im Gebeit des Urmia-Sees: 'Hasan Ali Ware' / Stephan Kroll -- The Hasanlu lion pins again / Oscar White Muscarella -- Notes on a fortified building and a 'Yurt' in adjacent registers of the Arjan Bowl / David Stronach -- Die Halbsaüle als Architecktur-Motiv im Vorderen Orient / Wolfram Kleiss.