Yervand Grekyan - The 5.2 KA BP climate event and the Armenian Highland
30 Pages | 203-233 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2022.3-203 | Revceived on: 2022-05-12 | Reviewed on: 2022-05-18 | Accepted for printing on: 2022-11-09
Published in: 2022 N 3 (221) / Discussions
One of the most important events in the Armenian Highland at the turn of the 4th-3rd millennia BC is the spread of the Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes culture towards the other parts of the highland and beyond. This phenomenon is known as “Kura-Araxes expansion”.
The dating of the “expansion” at around 3000-2900 BC shows that it took place during the period of drastic climate change known as “5.2 ka BP climate event”.
Keywords Kura-Araxes culture expansion climate change palaeoenvironment mobility population movement depopulation.