entity · arch_srsc1_lchashen_tsitelgori_horizon
Lchashen–Tsitelgori horizon
Also known as: Lchashen-Tsitelgori culture
An eastern South Caucasian archaeological classification used for Late Bronze and Early Iron Age burial and material traditions.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1500 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · defines or contextualizes classification
The Archaeology of the Caucasus: From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age — Antonio Sagona (2017)
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion - informs · defines or contextualizes classification
The Southern Caucasus in Prehistory: Stages of Cultural and Socioeconomic Development from the Eighth to the Second Millennium B.C. — K. Kh. Kushnareva (1997)
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion
Research description
It is included as an additional cross-border classification to prevent eastern Georgian material from being collapsed into either Lchashen–Metsamor or Samtavro alone.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Archaeological label, not an ethnicity
A modern archaeological classification based on material patterns rather than a secure ancient self-identified people.
Why does this record have this property?
The record groups material, chronological, or regional evidence. No assignment of language, ancestry, ancient self-designation, or modern national continuity follows from the label alone.
- The Archaeology of the Caucasus: From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age
supports assignment · Regional culture classification and cautions - The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia
contextualizes · Mobility, interaction, and culture models
Evidence and sources
- contextualizes · defines or contextualizes classification
The Southern Caucasus in Prehistory: Stages of Cultural and Socioeconomic Development from the Eighth to the Second Millennium B.C. — K. Kh. Kushnareva (1997)Source linked to entity record arch_srsc1_lchashen_tsitelgori_horizon.
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion - contextualizes · defines or contextualizes classification
The Archaeology of the Caucasus: From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age — Antonio Sagona (2017)Source linked to entity record arch_srsc1_lchashen_tsitelgori_horizon.
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion