Rothman Mitchell S
Anthropology Department, Widener University, Chester, PA 19013-5792
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Jul 28;112(30):9190-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1502220112. Epub 2015 Jun 15.
The Kura-Araxes cultural tradition existed in the highlands of the South Caucasus from 3500 to 2450 BCE (before the Christian era). This tradition represented an adaptive regime and a symbolically encoded common identity spread over a broad area of patchy mountain environments. By 3000 BCE, groups bearing this identity had migrated southwest across a wide area from the Taurus Mountains down into the southern Levant, southeast along the Zagros Mountains, and north across the Caucasus Mountains. In these new places, they became effectively ethnic groups amid already heterogeneous societies. This paper addresses the place of migrants among local populations as ethnicities and the reasons for their disappearance in the diaspora after 2450 BCE.
库拉-阿拉克斯文化传统于公元前3500年至公元前2450年（基督教时代之前）存在于南高加索的高地。这一传统代表了一种适应机制以及一种通过象征编码的共同身份认同，其分布在广泛的零星山区环境中。到公元前3000年，具有这种身份认同的群体已从金牛座山脉向西南方向迁移，跨越广阔区域，南下进入黎凡特南部，沿着扎格罗斯山脉向东南迁移，并向北穿越高加索山脉。在这些新的地方，他们在已然多元的社会中成为了实际上的族群。本文探讨了作为族群的移民在当地人口中的地位，以及他们在公元前2450年之后在散居地消失的原因。
