CRRC, American Councils and ARISC are pleased to announce the 3rd session of the Spring 2025 Tbilisi Works-in-Progress series!
This week’s session will be in a hybrid format at CRRC office and via Zoom (with speaker delivering virtually).
A Changing ‘Colchis’: Identity and Transformation in the Mortuary Landscapes of Western Georgia during the First Millennium BCE
Ruth Portes, Cornell University and ARISC Fellow
Date: 12 February 2025, 18:30 Tbilisi time
This talk presents preliminary data from research conducted in western Georgia of the burial assemblages at Vani, a city-site in the Imereti region, as well as a sample of burials from Pichvnari, a necropolis on the Georgian coast. This research comprises one component of my doctoral dissertation (in progress), which examines how the convergence of Greek colonization and Achaemenid hegemony in the South Caucasus during the mid-first millennium BCE transformed the social production of landscape. I explore how individuals from varying socio-economic status and locations expressed identity during this period through the examination of multiple social boundaries within the necropoleis.
Ruth Portes is a Ph.D. Candidate at Cornell University specializing in the ancient Black Sea Region. She received her B.A. in Archaeology and Writing from Johns Hopkins University (2016), and her M.A. in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies from Brandeis University (2018). Her dissertation examines how the convergence of Greek colonization and Achaemenid hegemony during the mid-first millennium BCE transformed the social production of landscape in modern-day Georgia. She has excavated in Spain, Israel, Mongolia, and Georgia.
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Works-in-Progress is an ongoing academic discussion series based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that takes place at the CRRC office at Chavchavadze Ave. 5 and online. It is co-organized by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, and the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC). All of the talks are free and open to the public.
In observation of the spirit of the Chatham House Rule, the talks will not be recorded, and we courteously request that the other participants refrain from recording and/or distributing recordings as well. The opinions expressed in WiP talks are those of the speakers alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of CRRC, ARISC or of American Councils.
WiP: “A Changing ‘Colchis’: Identity and Transformation in the Mortuary Landscapes of Western Georgia during the First Millennium BCE”
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