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U.S. ARCHAEOLOGISTS TO RESEARCH ANCIENT SITE IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 13, 2012 - 12:55 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Cambridge-Yerevan Sister City Association (CYSCA)
is launching a fundraising effort to help support the ongoing research
into 4th-2ndmillennium B.C. history and culture at the Shengavit
archaeological site in Yerevan.
According to the Armenian Weekly, archaeologist Dr. Mitchell S.
Rothman, head of the department of anthropology at Widener University
in Pennsylvania, plans on returning to Armenia with a group of American
archaeologists and students this summer.
There, at the Shengavit Historical and Archaeological Culture Preserve
in Yerevan's Shengavit district, his team, with Armenian colleagues,
will continue the work begun last summer. Namely, they will work to
uncover the story of the ancient society that was present at the
site from the 4th millennium B.C. This was before the formation
of Armenia and other nations in the region, although it is widely
believed the society living there at the time must have played a part
in the genesis of the Armenian people.
The site was initially excavated in 1936 by Armenian archaeologists.
This was the first site that exhibited what is often called "Shengavit
culture" or "Kura-Arax" culture. This culture had contacts throughout
much of the Middle East, as far as Mesopotamia and Palestine, and as
far west as Malatia in western Armenia (Anatolia). But there are still
many questions that archaeologists and historians seek to answer:
The U.S. archaeologists want to establish a more precise chronology
for the site using advanced dating techniques and to evaluate the
evolution of Shengavit's social structure. They then hope to publish
a full history of Shengavit.
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 13, 2012 - 12:55 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Cambridge-Yerevan Sister City Association (CYSCA)
is launching a fundraising effort to help support the ongoing research
into 4th-2ndmillennium B.C. history and culture at the Shengavit
archaeological site in Yerevan.
According to the Armenian Weekly, archaeologist Dr. Mitchell S.
Rothman, head of the department of anthropology at Widener University
in Pennsylvania, plans on returning to Armenia with a group of American
archaeologists and students this summer.
There, at the Shengavit Historical and Archaeological Culture Preserve
in Yerevan's Shengavit district, his team, with Armenian colleagues,
will continue the work begun last summer. Namely, they will work to
uncover the story of the ancient society that was present at the
site from the 4th millennium B.C. This was before the formation
of Armenia and other nations in the region, although it is widely
believed the society living there at the time must have played a part
in the genesis of the Armenian people.
The site was initially excavated in 1936 by Armenian archaeologists.
This was the first site that exhibited what is often called "Shengavit
culture" or "Kura-Arax" culture. This culture had contacts throughout
much of the Middle East, as far as Mesopotamia and Palestine, and as
far west as Malatia in western Armenia (Anatolia). But there are still
many questions that archaeologists and historians seek to answer:
The U.S. archaeologists want to establish a more precise chronology
for the site using advanced dating techniques and to evaluate the
evolution of Shengavit's social structure. They then hope to publish
a full history of Shengavit.