Ancient Aragats:

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Ancient Aragats

• Archaeological Investigations in Armenia, Pasts
  and Futures

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Armenia and Southern Caucasia
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The Pivot of Pre-History
Mt. Aragats and Armenian Archaeography
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Archaeology in Armenia I Speculations
The ruins of Van (Urartian Tushpa)
The 5th century AD historian Moses of Khorene (l)
in a 14th century illuminated manuscript with
Prince Sahak Bagratouni
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Archaeology in Armenia II Architecture,
Inscription, Monument
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Archaeology in Armenia IIMarr and Orbelli in
Van, 1916
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Archaeology in Armenia II Askharbek Kalantar
Aragats in Prehistory (1925)
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Archaeology in Armenia III Emergence of a
Historical Science
Boris B. Piotrovskii and Urartu
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Archaeology in Armenia IVTypology and Chronology
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Archaeology in Armenia V CollaborationNew
Questions/New Concerns
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Caucasia as an Archaeological Region
Landscape Regionalization
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Earliest Hominids in Eurasia Dmanisi
Between H. habilis H. erectus 1.8 mya
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Lower and Middle Paleolithic Peopling A New
World
Major Sites in Caucasia aMousterian bAcheulean c
cave site
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Lower Paleolithic on Mt. Aragats Acheulean
Bifaces
From Satani-Dar
From Horom
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Upper Paleolithic (40,000-10,000 BC)and
Mesolithic (10,000-6,000 BC)
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Neolithic Caucasia, ca. 6000-3500 BC New Lives,
New Technologies
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The Neolithic Village in Caucasia
Shulaveris-Gora
Select Village Plans
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Investigations at Aratashen The
Neolithic on the Ararat Plain
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The Village and Beyond The
Early Bronze Age, 3500-2100 BC
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The Village and Beyond The
Early Bronze Age, 3500-2100 BC
The Kura-Araxes Horizon
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Kura-Araxes I
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Kura-Araxes II
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Kura-Araxes III
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The Middle Bronze Age, 2100-1500 BCChanging
Settlement Patterns
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Middle Bronze KurgansTrialeti
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The Middle Bronze AgeFragmentation
Kizyl-Vank
Karmir-Berd
Sevan-Uzerlik
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The Middle Bronze AgeMobility and Martialism
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The Late Bronze Age (1500-1150 BC)
New Political Traditions
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Early Complex Polities in CaucasiaArchaeology,
Anthropology History
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Project ArAGATS
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The Tsakahovit Plain
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Phase I Systematic Regional Survey
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The LBA Archaeological Landscape
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Aragats as Necropolis Features and Morphology
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Aragats as Necropolis Distribution and Polity
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Phase II Excavations
Tsakahovit
Gegharot
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Gegharot
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The Early Bronze Age in the Tsakahovit Plain
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Stratigraphic Complexity at Gegharot
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The Beginning of the LBA at Tsakahovit
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Tsakahovits Terraces
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Tsakahovit Citadel
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Tsakahovits Nascent Institutions?
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Mt. Aragatss LBA Cemeteries
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The Collapse of the LBA in the Tsakahovit Plain
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The Expansion of the Southern Caucasian Political
Tradition Urartu
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After Urartu New Settlement in the Tsakahovit
Plain
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The Yervandid Era at TsakahovitThe Lower Town
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Yervandid Tsakahovit The Citadel
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The Yervandid Era at Tsakahovit The Citadel
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The Future of Archaeology in ArmeniaLocal and
Global Heritage