The Problem of Armenian Origins: Myth, History, Hypotheses - Hardcover

Armen Y. Petrosyan

9780984535361: The Problem of Armenian Origins: Myth, History, Hypotheses

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ISBN 10: 0984535365 ISBN 13: 9780984535361

Publisher: The Institute for the Study of Man, Inc., 2018

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Petrosyan examines the amalgam of linguistic, archaeological, mythological and historical evidence that bears on the origins of the Armenian people. He surveys and deconstructs the foundation myths of the Armenian people and their neighbors. He examines the written evidence of the various peoples who occupied the Armenian highlands and discusses the conflicting evidence for a traditional center in the Ayrarat region while the main cult centers appear to have been in Upper Armenia. He locates the Armenians in the overall network of ethnic and linguistic entities that flourished in the multi-ethnic Urartian empire. Finally the author surveys and assesses the variety of solutions to solve the problem of Armenian origins. INTRO:Common origin;Homeland;Biological succession;Cultural succession; Linguistic succession.TRADITIONS ON THE ORIGIN OF ARMENIA:Armenian tradition;Mythology;Ethnography;Linguistics;History;The tradition of the "Pre-Armenian Population";Traditions of other peoples on the origin of the Armenians.THE EARLIEST TRIBAL AND STATE FORMATIONS OF THE ARMENIAN HIGHLANDS AND THE PROBLEM OF THEIR SUCCESSION:Countries of the Armenian Highlands;Problem of the historical succession of ancient countries;Upper Armenia;Ayrarat;Van-Vaspurakan;Relations between the two centers;The Urartian Empire.ETHNO-LINGUISTIC SITUATION OF THE ARMENIAN HIGHLANDS 2ND-1ST MILLENNIA BC:Semitic languages;Hattic and Kaskaean languages;Hurro-Urartian languages;Indo-Iranian (Aryan) languages;Anatolian languages;Connections with the Balkans and western Asia Minor;The ethnic origin of the elite of Urartu;The Earliest Armenians in the Armenian Highlands;Words;Toponyms;Anthroponyms.HYPOTHESES CONCERNING THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE EARLIEST ARMENIANS:The Proto-Indo-European homeland and the Armenian language;Traditional Balkanic hypothesis;Arimoi hypothesis;Ḫatti hypothesis;Ḫayasa hypothesis;Etiuni hypothesis;Toponyms;Anthroponyms;Theonym;Relationship of the different hypotheses;Subjective factors.

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