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Colin Renfrew's State-Formation Concepts and the Political Formations of the Armenian Highland in the 2nd Millennium BCE

Khanzadyan, Mariam · 2025

Applies Colin Renfrew's peer-polity interaction theory to the political formations of the Armenian Highland in the second millennium BCE, working through Isuwa and the Etiuni confederation as test cases for how early states in the region formed and related to one another.

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Fundamental Armenology, Issue 1(21) 2025, History (National Academy of Sciences of RA / All Armenian Foundation Financing Armenological Studies); ISSN 1829-4618
Year
2025
Language
English

Citation

Khanzadyan, Mariam 2025. Colin Renfrew's State-Formation Concepts and the Political Formations of the Armenian Highland in the 2nd Millennium BCE. Fundamental Armenology, Issue 1(21) 2025, History (National Academy of Sciences of RA / All Armenian Foundation Financing Armenological Studies); ISSN 1829-4618.

What this offers a reader

For students

Theory applied to the deep past of the Armenian Highland: good for anyone working on state formation.

For academics

Applies a major archaeological framework to Bronze Age Armenian polities.

For the community

The political formations of our highland, two thousand years before Christ.

For a general reader

How the earliest states of the Armenian Highland came together.

Topics

Armenian Highlandstate formationpeer-polity interactionIsuwaEtiuniBronze Age

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