Cotsen Institute of Archaeolgy at UCLA  and Archaeological Institute of AmericaPresent:Dr. Andrea RicciGerman Archaeological Institute – Eurasia Dept.2015 AIA-DAI Fellow at the Cotsen Institute (UCLA) “Early settlement of the Southern Caucasus: recent discoveries of the German-Azerbaijani investigations in the Mil Plain (Southern Azerbaijan)”The talk will address the latest results of the interdisciplinary project “Kura in Motion”, which has been investigating early sedentism along the Kura Valley since 2010. Focus will be on the landscape of survival of the Mil Plain of Southern Azerbaijan, where a series of late Neolithic (6th Mill. BCE) sites have been investigated with intensive survey and excavation.