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    ARMENIAN-BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION FOUND FIRST IN ARMENIA MESOLITE MONUMENT, SITE OF NEANDERTHALS

    Yerevan, May 19. ArmInfo. A group of Armenian and British
    archaeologists will start diggings of Neanderthals' site in the
    karst caves of Ijevan mountain ridge, on the left bank of Agstev
    river in 2006.

    The group manager Boris Gasparyan told ArmInfo that the finding is
    the first mesolite monument for the whole Armenia. The so-called cave
    "Ovk-1" and the rocky shed "Ovk-3" were chosen for diggings. During the
    last year's reconnaissance investigations of caves, the archaeological
    expedition found sites of Neanderthals there. "We've opened several
    cultural layers during diggings and only after the seven layer's
    removal, we succeed to find a must layer, rich by bone remains and
    magnificent stone tools of Neanderthals", Gasparyan said.

    Four archaeological layers were fixed there in the punched
    reconnaissance hole. As Gasparyan noted, the last layer with the
    mesolite-typical microlite tools from obsidian is the most important.

    According to the preliminary conclusions of archaeologists, the Ijevan
    hollow and the Agstev river canyon were settled in the must epoch
    at the least (200,000-40,000 years ago). The scientists will start
    the main diggings on June 10. The archaeologists do not consider it
    appropriate yet to call the concrete age of findings, as the monument
    materials have to pass complex radiocarbon analyses.
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