Ceramics in transitions : Chalcolithic through Iron Age in the highlands of the Southern Caucasus and Anatolia / edited by Karen S. Rubinson and Antonio Sagona.

Papers presented at a workshop held at Barnard College, Columbia University, in December 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : a question of nomenclature / Karen S. Rubinson and Antonio Sagona -- Late Chalcolithic ceramic cultures in the Anatolian Highlands / Catherine Marro -- Mid-fourth millennium red-black burnished wares from Anatolia : a cross-comparison / Giulio Palumbi -- The Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age transition at Baruj Tepe (Bari Qalasi), North-western Iran / Karim Alizadeh -- Some technical aspects fo the pottery of the Early Bronze Age site of Gegharot (Armenia) / Armine Hayrapetyan -- The Middle Bronze Age. The pattern burnished ornament in Georgia during the Bronze Age / Giorgi Bedianashvili -- The Highland Plateau of eastern Anatolia in the second millennium BCE : Middle/Late Bronze Ages / Aynur Özfirat -- The pottery traditions of the Armenian Middle to Late Bronze Age 'transition' in the context of Bronze and Iron Age periodization / Pavel Avetisyan and Arsen Bobokhyan -- Didi Gora and Tqisbolo-gora : two Middle Bronze Age settlements in the Alazani Valley, Kakheti, eastern Georgia / Gabriele Kastl -- Ceramics of Tqisbolo-gora, Georgia : second and first mellennia BCE horizons / Ute Goehring -- Ubadno (eastern Georgia) : three radiocarbon-dated settlements from ca. 1000 BCE : a report on the cermaic analysis / Jan-Kryzsztof Bertram -- Recent investigations at Pulur (Erzurum) : observations on northeast Anatolian ceramics / Mehmet Işikli -- The transition from Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the upper Tigris region, southeastern Anatolia : identifying changes in pottery / Gülriz Kozbe -- Ancient Golchian pottery from Georgia / Joni Apakidze.