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| Dr. Ruben S. Badalyan and Professor
Adam T. Smith, directors of Project ArAGATS, conferring over a late Bronze
Age wall at Gegharot with Mt. Aragats in the background. |
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| A worker cleans a Late Bronze Age storage
jar within the Gegharot citadel. The jar was recovered beneath the destruction
debris of the fortress room blocks. Nearby lies a stone idol from the
same period. |
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| Alan Greene, student of Professor Adam
T. Smith at the University of Chicago, holding two stamps and three arrowheads
from this shrine discovered this summer. |
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| University of Southern California Ph.D.
candidate, Ian Lindsay, and Armenian workers excavate the Late Bronze
Age fortress settlement in Tsaghkahovit. |
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| University of Michigan Ph.D. candidate,
Lori Khatchadourian, recording in a room of the Yervandid-era lower town
of Tsaghkahovit with the terraces of the Late Bronze Age citadel in the
background. |
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| Laura Popova, the project's paleobotanist,
preparing to core a marsh in the Tsaghkahovit Plain. |
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| The excavators of the kurgan with vessels
from the west chamber (ca. 16th-15th centuries BC). |
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| The Central chamber of the kurgan. One
horse skull is visible on the right. The adult male skeleton is in the
center. |
