entity · arch_srsc1_trialeti_vanadzor_tradition
Trialeti–Vanadzor tradition
Also known as: Trialeti culture, Trialeti-Vanadzor culture
A Middle Bronze Age highland kurgan and material tradition important as an antecedent to Late Bronze Age southern Caucasian systems.
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.
2200 BCE–1500 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · defines or contextualizes classification
On the Issues of Chronology and Periodisation of the Armenian Middle Bronze Age Archaeological Cultures — Pavel S. Avetisyan (2017)
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion - 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
The label is not extended automatically into later fortress and cemetery traditions. Its end is treated as a debated transition rather than an abrupt disappearance.
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
On the Issues of Chronology and Periodisation of the Armenian Middle Bronze Age Archaeological Cultures — Pavel S. Avetisyan (2017)Source linked to entity record arch_srsc1_trialeti_vanadzor_tradition.
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_trialeti_vanadzor_tradition.
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion - 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_trialeti_vanadzor_tradition.
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion