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of Project: |
To attend the joint annual
meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American
Philological Association in Boston, Massachusetts from January 6 –
9, 2005. Dr. Zardaryan will participate in the session “Classical
Archaeology in the Caucasus”, where he will present a paper entitled
“The Armenian Highlands on the Communication Access South-North
during the First Millennium BC.” The paper examines the economic and
cultural interrelations between the Armenian Plateau and
Mesopotamia, the Iranian Plateau, Northern Caucasus and Northern
Black Sea littoral. The paper demonstrates the developing role of
Urartu and its successor Classical Armenian Kingdoms within this
interregional trade. Dr. Zardaryan supports his assertions with
archaeological and written materials from Babylonian, Persian,
Greek, Roman and Armenian sources.
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