{"id":647,"date":"2014-07-07T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/?p=647"},"modified":"2015-07-13T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T12:21:51","slug":"aragats-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/2014\/07\/07\/aragats-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"ArAGATS 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 season of Project ArAGATS is underway. \u00a0As usual, a number of research projects are being conducted under the Project ArAGATS umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>At Gegharot, we are continuing work in the Early Bronze Age layers of the citadel where excavations continue to reveal remarkably well-preserved stratified levels of both the early and late phases of the Kura-Araxes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hetq.am\/static\/news\/b\/2014\/07\/55531.jpg\" width=\"382\" height=\"256\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excavations underway in T30 at Gegharot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Below the citadel, we are continuing work in a remarkable field of kurgans that appear to have been constructed at the ear lies moments of the region&#8217;s Late Bronze Age.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hetq.am\/static\/content\/aragacotn\/gegharot\/IMG_3379.jpg\" width=\"422\" height=\"282\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excavations underway on Kurgan 3<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the site of Aragatsi Berd, we have recommenced excavations on the terrace below the citadel in order to shed more light on the site&#8217;s Bronze Age occupations.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to continuing work a critical sites, Project ArAGATS has also inaugurated a new phase of regional survey focused on the upper Kasakh Valley. The goal of these investigations is to provide a foundation for a comparative regional understanding of long term settlement history in order to place the patterns detected in the Tsaghkahovit Plain within a wider regional framework.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this regional research, we are using a Phantom 2 Quad Copter Drone to capture new views of the region and our sites. \u00a0We will post updates on the work during the month of July.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_648\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gegh_aerial_reduced.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-648\" class=\" wp-image-648     \" alt=\"Aerial View of Gegharot Citadel\" src=\"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gegh_aerial_reduced.jpg\" width=\"419\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial View of Gegharot Citadel<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 season of Project ArAGATS is underway. \u00a0As usual, a number of research projects are being conducted under the Project ArAGATS umbrella. At Gegharot, we are continuing work in the Early Bronze Age layers of the citadel where excavations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/2014\/07\/07\/aragats-2014\/\">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-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}