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National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Armenia
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography
ARCHAEOLOGY OF ARMENIA
IN REGIONAL CONTEXT
Proceedings of the International Conference dedicated
to the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography
Held on September 15-17, 2009 in Yerevan
Edited by
Pavel Avetisyan and Arsen Bobokhyan
GITUTYUN
YEREVAN 2012
CONTENTS
Archaeology of Armenia in regional context: Achievements and perspectives
Pavel Avetisyan, Arsen Bobokhyan 7
The Hrazdan gorge Palaeolithic project, 2008-2009
Daniel S. Adler, Benik Yeritsyan, Keith Wilkinson, Ron Pinhasi, Guy Bar-Oz,
Samvel Nahapetyan, Carolina Mallol, Francesco Berna, Richard Bailey,
Beverly A. Schmidt, Phil Glauberman, Nathan Wales, Boris Gasparyan 22
Middle Palaeolithic occupation at Hovk-1, Armenia
Ron Pinhasi, Boris Gasparyan, Samvel Nahapetyan, Guy Bar-Oz,
Lior Weissobrod, Angela Bruch, Roman Hovsepyan, Keith Wilkinson 39
From the Late Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic in north-western Armenia: Preliminary results
Christine Chataigner, Boris Gasparyan, Ciril Montoya, Makoto Arimura,
Varduhi Melikyan, Jeremie Liagre, Arthur Petrosyan, Robert Ghukasyan,
David Colonge, Christophe Fourloubey, Dmitri Arakelyan, Laurence Astruc,
Samvel Nahapetyan, Roman Hovsepyan, Adrian Balasescu,
Carine Tomé, Valentin Radu 52
Activities of the Armenian-Italian archaeological expedition in the Sevan Lake Basin, 1994-2009
Raffaele Biscione, Simon Hmayakyan, Hayk Hakobyan, Neda Parmegiani 64
A comparative technological study of Kura-Araxes ceramics and their derivatives: Project design and first results
Raffi Greenberg, Mark Iserlis 70
Re-evaluation of the ceramics of Karaz Höyük, Erzurum
Mehmet Işıklı 76
Archaeological investigations in Trialeti
Goderdzi Narimanishvili 88
A new indication for the specific dating of Trialeti culture
Konstantin Pitskhelauri, Rolan Kiladze 106
Recent methodological and technical advances in the archaeology of Late Bronze Age residential complexes, Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia
Ian Lindsay 110
Excavations of the cemetery of Aghavnatun: Preliminary results
Levon Petrosyan, Firdus Muradyan 126
The Iron Age fortress of Aramus, Armenia: Archaeological evidence of the East and North Forts
Sandra Heinsch, Walter Kuntner, Hayk Avetisyan 133
The surroundings of the Khaldi temple: Preliminary results of a new program of research on the Urartian fortress of Erebuni
Stephane Deschamps, François Fichet de Clairefontaine, Justo Traina,
Vincenzo Mutarelli, Gurgen Davtian 148
Rattling and clapping Urartian girls: Idiophones in Urartu
Ursula Seidl 163
The silver rhyta from Erebuni revisited
David Stronach 170
Archaeological research at Yervandashat, 2005-2008 Felix Ter-Martirosov 185
Beniamin (5-4th centuries BC): A palace and its dependencies during the Achaemenid period
Felix Ter-Martirosov, Stephane Deschamps,
François Fichet de Clairfontaine, Vincenzo Mutarelli 197
Armenians depicted on Achaemenid monuments
Michael Roaf 208
Ancient Armenian sites in Armenia and north-western Iran: Hellenistic period
Stephan Kroll 219
The discovery and first results of archaeological investigation of Tigranakert in Artsakh, 2005-2009
Hamlet Petrosyan, Lyuba Kirakosyan, Vardges Safaryan, Aghavni Zhamkochyan,
Ruben Vardanyan, Inessa Karapetyan, Tatyana Vardanesova 223