Getahovit-2. New evidence of an Upper Palaeolithic settlement in northern Armenia
Abstrak
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.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (3)
Irena Kalantaryan
Marcin Białowarczuk
Michał Przeździecki
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2022
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.37343/uw.2083-537X.pam31.14
- Akses
- Open Access ✓