Ararat
Plain Archaeology
“The central position of the Plain of Ararat and of its
mountainous vicinity stipulates the
importance of a specific study of this region… The data…indicate that all of the geographic
zones ever inhabited in this
region were populated to some extent during the early stages of the Kura-Araxes... An early Kura-Araxes
settlement was recently
discovered in the mountain zone near Aparan in the upper part of the basin of K’asakh river which is a left
tributary of the
Araxes. At the same time, early Kura-Araxes (second half of the 4th millennium BCE) settlements located on the
alluvial flatland of the
Plain of Ararat…have been partially...”
Dr. Gregory E. Areshian, UCLA, Adjunct Professor at Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA03/10/2009
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