Культура кувшинных погребений Арцах-Утика и проблема этничности в албано-армянской контактной зоне в античный период

Abstract

The culture of jar burials in the Classical period occupied a significant territory of the Near East, the Mediterranean and Asia Minor, including the Armenian Highlands and Transcaucasia up to the Kura River. Jar burials were the most common and the most archaeologically documented among all types of ancient burials in Artsakh and Utik. Among the whole variety of burial structures (stone boxes, cists, ground burials, etc.), Jar burials became predominant, especially at the end of the first century BC – the first centuries AD.