{"id":549,"date":"2013-06-30T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T11:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/?p=549"},"modified":"2015-07-13T12:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T12:30:37","slug":"2013-excavations-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/2013\/06\/30\/2013-excavations-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Excavations Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the fourth day of fieldwork for the 2013 Project ArAGATS excavations. \u00a0We are working at three sites this year: Gegharot Fortress, the Gegharot Kurgans, and the town at Tsaghkahovit. \u00a0The Gegharot fortress excavations are off to a quick start thanks to an operation on the east citadel that we closed at the end\u00a0of the 2011 season just as things were getting interesting. \u00a0As we suspected, after just a bit of cleaning, we appear to be moving into a well-preserved Late Bronze Age deposit reminiscent of other destruction levels that we have encountered on the site. \u00a0Here is our first small find from the operation&#8211;a fitting testament to destruction.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_551\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo1-e1372934239623.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-551\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-551\" alt=\"A Late Bronze Age Obsidian Arrowhead from Gegharot Operation T34\" src=\"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo1-e1372934239623-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Late Bronze Age Obsidian Arrowhead from Gegharot Operation T34<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the Gegharot Kurgans, we are cleaning a relatively large burial adjacent to the tomb we excavated in 2005. \u00a0These excavations will serve as pilot research for Hannah Chazin&#8217;s planned dissertation research on the circulation of animals in the Late Bronze Age regional political economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_8140.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-550 aligncenter\" alt=\"Tsagh 2013 Day 4\" src=\"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_8140-300x225.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At Tsaghkahovit, work is concentrating this year in Precinct C in the shadow of the fortress hill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We will continue to post updates on the progress of our work throughout the field season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the fourth day of fieldwork for the 2013 Project ArAGATS excavations. \u00a0We are working at three sites this year: Gegharot Fortress, the Gegharot Kurgans, and the town at Tsaghkahovit. \u00a0The Gegharot fortress excavations are off to a quick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/2013\/06\/30\/2013-excavations-underway\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}