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