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GROUP OF ARMENIAN AND FRENCH ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND FIRST EVER OPEN SETTLEMENT OF PRIMEVAL MAN
Yerevan, May 19. ArmInfo. For the first time in Armenia a group
of Armenian and French archaeologists has found a open Stone Age
settlement in the territory of the National Park of Dilijan, Tavush
region.
The head of the group Boris Gasparyan says that the find is a planned
and organized proto-settlement near the village of Kalavan on the
right bank of the river Barepat. Last year archaeologists found in
Kalavan early Bronze age graves with remarkable ceramic and metal
articles. Deeper exploration revealed stone constructions, obsidian
and flint quarries, primitive weapons, bones of animals with spearheads
inside. Experts say that this may be not just one site but a settlement
consisting of several Stone Age camps.
The most remarkable finds are weapons of jasper, flint and obsidian
- mostly spearheads, cutters and scrapers. Experts infer that the
Kalavan settlers were hunters. They probably hunted goats and rams and
processed their bones and skins. The radiocarbon and geo-morphological
tests will show how primeval people lived there.
Yerevan, May 19. ArmInfo. For the first time in Armenia a group
of Armenian and French archaeologists has found a open Stone Age
settlement in the territory of the National Park of Dilijan, Tavush
region.
The head of the group Boris Gasparyan says that the find is a planned
and organized proto-settlement near the village of Kalavan on the
right bank of the river Barepat. Last year archaeologists found in
Kalavan early Bronze age graves with remarkable ceramic and metal
articles. Deeper exploration revealed stone constructions, obsidian
and flint quarries, primitive weapons, bones of animals with spearheads
inside. Experts say that this may be not just one site but a settlement
consisting of several Stone Age camps.
The most remarkable finds are weapons of jasper, flint and obsidian
- mostly spearheads, cutters and scrapers. Experts infer that the
Kalavan settlers were hunters. They probably hunted goats and rams and
processed their bones and skins. The radiocarbon and geo-morphological
tests will show how primeval people lived there.