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L’attività archeologica italiana dell’ISMEO in Armenia

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of the first 3 years of activity of the joint Italian-Armenian expedition between the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Science (Armenia) and the ISMEO – Association of Mediterranean and Oriental Studies (Italy) in the Republic of Armenia. The Italian-Armenian project, named Kotayk Survey Project,  aims to evaluate the archaeological landscape patterns of the territory of the Hrazdan river basin, which is located between two of the most important regions of Armenian highlands: the Araxes valley and the Lake Sevan basin. Along with a detailed surface survey, test excavations have been performed in a fortified site dated to the Middle Iron Age.


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Submitted: Feb. 15, 2017 | Accepted: July 4, 2017 | Published Feb. 19, 2018 | Language: it

Keywords Iron Age • Urartu • Armenia • Fortress

Copyright © 2018 Manuel Castelluccia, Roberto Dan, Riccardo La Farina, Arthur Petrosyan , Mattia Raccidi . This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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