Academic Work

A scholar of the Southern Caucasus

Over more than three decades Nurida Ateshi has published over three hundred scholarly and cultural articles — across six countries and in five languages. In archaeology alone she has forty publications, four monographs and a university textbook. Her research centres on the archaeology and early history of the Southern Caucasus.

300+Scholarly & cultural articles
40Archaeology publications
4Monographs
6Countries of publication

Academic Work

Research areas

Archaeology of the Southern Caucasus

Field and material study of the region’s ancient cultures.

The Khojaly–Gedebey culture

The focus of her habilitation; Late Bronze and Early Iron Age.

The Caucasian Amazons

Armed women of Caucasian antiquity, between myth and evidence.

Essad Bey / Kurban Said

The Baku-born writer of many names and the world that formed him.

Museum & archive research

Caucasian heritage in collections from Berlin and Vienna to Moscow.

Translation

Scholarly and literary translation in German, Azerbaijani and Russian.

Academic Work

Monographs

2019
Das materielle Erbe der Khodjali-Gedebey-KulturBaku: Aspoligraf · 640 s.
2017
History of Archaeology of the CaucasusBaku: Khazar University · 418 pp.
2016
Caucasian Archaeology Collections in European MuseumsBaku: OL NPKT
2015
Finds of the Khojaly-Gedebey Culture in European MuseumsBaku: Elm və təhsil · 300 pp.

Academic Work

Selected publications

A selection from archaeology appears below; the complete list of more than three hundred publications is being prepared.

2022
A new page of Germans’ “black archaeology” in Gedebey, or scientific ethicsNational History Museum of Azerbaijan
2017
Critical Remarks on Archaeological Research in the 19th–20th c. (Late Bronze & Early Iron Age, S. Caucasus)Ancient Near Eastern Studies 54 (Peeters)
2017
185 years of German and European archaeology in the CaucasusPrähistorische Zeitschrift (de Gruyter)
2016
Archaeological Caucasus collections in European museumsPONTE 72/9 (Florence)
2016
German and other European research in the CaucasusXəbərlər (ANAS)
2015
185 years of German archaeology in the CaucasusAntike Welt 1 (von Zabern)
2015
Caucasian Amazons: Myths and ArchaeologyFestschrift D. M. Nasilov, Moscow
2015
Amazon heritage in the CaucasusNEWS, Nakhchivan Section (ANAS)
2015
Material testimonies of the Khojaly-Gedebey culture in Germany (V. Belck)Kavkaz i mir, Tbilisi
2014
Chronik der 185 Jahre deutsche Archäologie im SüdkaukasusPrähistorische Zeitschrift 89(2) (de Gruyter)
2014
On the identification of armed women in 2nd–1st mill. BC tombs in AzerbaijanArchäologische Informationen 37 (DGUF)
2014
Caucasian Amazons: myths and archaeological factsTarix və onun problemləri (Baku State University)
2014
Petroglyphs of warrior women in the CaucasusElmi əsərlər, Nakhchivan (ANAS)
2013
Ten bronze belts of Central Transcaucasia in the Berlin Museum of PrehistoryAzerbaijan Archaeology 16(2)
2013
The dark side of Caucasian archaeology: the unknown Khojaly-Gedebey cultureAzerbaijan Archaeology 2 (ANAS)
2012
The role of women in the war history of Azerbaijan and warrior-women gravesAzərbaycan arxeologiyası və etnoqrafiyası 1

Academic Work

Excavations & fieldwork

2017

Terter, Azerbaijan ANAS

Excavation

2016

Lerik, Azerbaijan French–Azerbaijani project (M. Casanova)

Excavation

2015–2016

Baku · Russia · Austria

Conferences

Her research has been presented and published at international conferences and scholarly meetings, including those below.

Contemporary Problems of Caucasian History Ganja State University
The Archaeological Heritage of Karabakh ANAS, Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography, Baku
International Conference on Caucasian Albania & the Caucasus Baku
International Communications Tbilisi
Academic colloquia (Festschrift D. M. Nasilov) Moscow

For education, degrees and positions, see the Biography section.

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