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  • Chapter Two - Geography and Ecology of the Caucasus

  • Aram Yardumian, Bryn Athyn College, Pennsylvania, Theodore G. Schurr, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Peopling of the Caucasus
    Published online:
    21 January 2025
    Print publication:
    23 January 2025, pp 9-15

  • Summary

    This chapter introduces the Caucasus as a geographic entity and its placement relative to the Greater and the Lesser Caucasus mountain ranges. It discusses the impact of the region’s terrain on human settlement and community isolation; the tectonic-geophysical formation of the Caucasus Mountains; the diverse physical environments of the Caucasus region; the region as a frontier zone and biogeographic barrier; early hominoid presence in the Caucasus; the history of glaciation and the possibility for population refugia throughout the Last Glacial Maximum, and the Manych-Kerch Spillway.