Getahovit-2. New evidence of an Upper Palaeolithic settlement in northern Armenia
| Autor: | Irena Kalantaryan, Marcin Białowarczuk, Michał Przeździecki |
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| Jazyk: | German<br />English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, Vol 31, Pp 13-24 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1234-5415 2083-537X |
| DOI: | 10.37343/uw.2083-537X.pam31.14 |
| Popis: | The cave settlement at Getahovit-2 in Armenia has a proven record of human occupation from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages, making it the third prehistoric cave site, after Aghitu-3 and Kalavan-1, to be known from this region. The current excavation of an Upper Palaeolithic horizon, discovered in 2014, has yielded a radiocarbon date placing the site within the Last Glacial Maximum, thus filling a gap in the archaeological record between the middle and late UpperPalaeolithic (between 24,000 and 18,000 cal. BP). The short-termoccupation by a group of hunters, revealed by the preliminaryresults, is interpreted with considerable likelihood as a stopduring a hunting expedition. Work at the cave site has beenresumed under the flag of a newly established Armenian-Polishresearch cooperation between the Institute of Archaeology andEthnography of the National Academy of Science of the Republicof Armenia and the Faculty of Archaeology of the University ofWarsaw. |
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