Project ArAGATS is a collaborative archaeological research program dedicated to the exploration of southern Caucasia’s rich past and the preservation of modern Armenia’s diverse cultural heritage.  Our mission is to investigate critical anthropological and historical problems in the region from the earliest times through the modern era, utilizing cutting-edge techniques of field study and laboratory analysis.  In order to do so, we are committed to educating and training a new generation of archaeologists in contemporary approaches to analysis, to presenting the results of work in both scholarly and popular fora, and to preserving the region’s sites and material culture for succeeding generations.

Founded in 1998 by Dr. Adam T. Smith (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago) and Dr. Ruben S. Badalyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan), Project ArAGATS is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2008.

To date, our investigations have been focused in the Tsaghkahovit Plain of Central Armenia which lies just under the northern slopes of Mt. Aragats.

In 1998 and 2000, we completed the first systematic intensive regional survey ever conducted in the South Caucasus.  This work recorded a complex history of settlements, ranging from large Early Bronze Age (Kura-Araxes) villages, to stone-walled Late Bronze Age fortresses, to well-planned towns of the mid-first millennium B.C.  But beyond the restricted confines of these settlements our survey recorded a landscape crowded with the cemeteries, irrigation canals, reservoirs, and corrals of millennial of occupation.

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ArAGATS Library

• Abramishvili 2003 (1.6 MiB)
• Adzhan Etal 1932 (1.3 MiB)
• Akhvlediani 2005 (2.2 MiB)
• Areshyan Et Al 1990 (1.3 MiB)
• Avetisyan 2000 SMEA Report (31.6 MiB)
• Badalyan Et Al 2008 (5.3 MiB)
• Badalyan Et Al 2008 (5.3 MiB)
• Badalyan Etal 2003 (2.0 MiB)
• Badalyan Etal 2003 (2.0 MiB)
• Badalyan Etal 2003 (2.0 MiB)
• Badalyan Etal 2004 (2.9 MiB)
• Badalyan-Palumbi 2005 (263.5 KiB)
• Barge And Chattaigner 2003 (407.3 KiB)
• Bulkin Et Al 1982 (3.4 MiB)
• Burney 1972 The People Of The Hills Ch 1-2 (3.1 MiB)
• Caucasus 1898 (261.3 KiB)
• Chernykh 1992 (1.9 MiB)
• Dergachev 1989 (1.1 MiB)
• Diakonoff 1990 (1.1 MiB)
• Esaian 1975 (1.9 MiB)
• Gabunia 2000 (1.8 MiB)
• Jakubiak 2004a (127.0 KiB)
• Jakubiak 2004b (107.0 KiB)
• Khachatrian 1975 (4.4 MiB)
• Khachatrian 1979 (6.7 MiB)
• Khanzadian 1995 (2.4 MiB)
• Khatchadourian 2006 (2.2 MiB)
• Khazandyan 1973 (4.5 MiB)
• Knauss 2005 (1.0 MiB)
• Knauss 2006 (1.2 MiB)
• Kohl 1988 (1.1 MiB)
• Kohl 1992 (4.5 MiB)
• Kohl 2002 (520.4 KiB)
• Kohl And Kroll 1999 (330.6 KiB)
• Kohl Et Al 2002 (469.2 KiB)
• Kohl Kura-Araxes ChiefdomState (1.7 MiB)
• Kuftin 1941 Trialeti (25.3 MiB)
• Lindsay 2006 (26.9 MiB)
• Lindsay Et Al 2009 (954.3 KiB)
• Lindsay-Smith 2006 (4.9 MiB)
• Martirosyan 1964 (14.0 MiB)
• Mnatsakanyan1965 (1.8 MiB)
• Munchaev 1994 (3.7 MiB)
• Palumbi 2003 (3.2 MiB)
• Piotrovskii 1949 (3.1 MiB)
• Piotrovskii 1959 (1.4 MiB)
• Pitskelauri 1979 (6.6 MiB)
• Pogrebova 1977 (2.3 MiB)
• Sagona 2004 (2.9 MiB)
• Sagona And Sagona 2000 (1.4 MiB)
• Sardaryan 1967 (4.0 MiB)
• Simonyan1983KS (838.4 KiB)
• Simonyan1990IFZ (1.6 MiB)
• Smith 1999 (4.2 MiB)
• Smith 2000 (1.6 MiB)
• Smith 2001 (401.5 KiB)
• Smith 2004 (1.2 MiB)
• Smith 2004b (175.2 KiB)
• Smith 2005 (1.1 MiB)
• Smith 2006 (1.6 MiB)
• Smith 2011-AnnRev (166.6 KiB)
• Smith Et Al 2004 (4.2 MiB)
• Smith Et Al 2009 (13.0 MiB)
• Tirats'yan 2003 [1978] (517.9 KiB)
• Tonikian 1992 (1.8 MiB)
• Torosyan 1971 (1.2 MiB)
• Tsetskhladze2003 (459.3 KiB)
• Zardaryan 1994 (1.2 MiB)