Different waves and directions of Neolithic migrations in the Armenian Highland. [PDF]
Background: The peopling of Europe and the nature of the Neolithic agricultural migration as a primary issue in the modern human colonization of the globe is still widely debated.
Hovhannisyan A +6 more
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Evidence of historical seismicity and volcanism in the Armenian Highland (from Armenian and other sources) [PDF]
This work presents a summary on the development of studies of historical earthquakes in Armenia and adjacent parts of Turkey and Iran. Since ancient times, this region has been an arena where active geodynamic and seismic history intermingled with no ...
Y. Abgaryan, A. Karakhanian
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C. F. LEHMANN-HAUPT’S STUDIES ON ASSYRIAN INSCRIPTIONS OF THE ARMENIAN HIGHLAND [PDF]
Prominent German orientalist C. F. Lehmann-Haupt explored the Tigris Tunnel during his travels in the Armenian Highland and Northern Mesopotamia from 1898 to 1899.
VAHE SARGSYAN
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Possible species-flock scenario for the evolution of the cyprinid genus Capoeta (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) within late Neogene lake systems of the Armenian Highland. [PDF]
We studied 4 Ma old isolated pharyngeal teeth from lake sediments of Çevirme (Tekman Palaeolake, Erzurum Province). Based on shape characters defined for 3D models of modern species, we found that the Pliocene lake constitutes sympatric occurrence of ...
Anna Ayvazyan +2 more
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Microbial Diversity of Terrestrial Geothermal Springs in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh: A Review [PDF]
The microbial diversity of high-altitude geothermal springs has been recently assessed to explore their biotechnological potential. However, little is known regarding the microbiota of similar ecosystems located on the Armenian Highland.
Ani Saghatelyan +3 more
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Origin and diffusion of human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 [PDF]
Human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 is a common male lineage in West Asia. One high-frequency region—encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, southern Mesopotamia, and the southern Levant—resides ~ 2000 km away from the other one found in the Caucasus.
Hovhannes Sahakyan +21 more
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THE NEW KINGDOM OF EGYPT AND THE EARLY STATE ORGANIZATIONS OF THE ARMENIAN HIGHLAND IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE II MILLENNIUM BC(BASED ON HISTORICAL SOURCES AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE) [PDF]
The Ancient Near Eastern powerful states in the mid II millennium BC were not only directing and supervising the military-political, trading-economic, and sociocultural processes, but were also trying to obtain their dominance and control in the region ...
ASHOT PILIPOSYAN , ARMINE HAYRAPETYAN
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Reflexes of a Hurrian Word in Armenian: A Theonym, a Dendronym, an Anthroponym
In Old Armenian, saws means ‘proud, luxurious, great,’ ‘some (bright) color,’ and saws and sawsi mean ‘oriental plane tree’. The word has no etymology. Hurrian has the word šauša [sausa] ‘big, great’ and the theonym Šauša / Šauška for the local version ...
Armen Ye. Petrosyan
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Physical type of the Armenian Highlands populations in antiquity (based on osteometrical materials from urban and rural settlements) [PDF]
The paper is concerned with the analysis of osteometrical data from the antique populations of the Armenian Highlands, i.e. anthropological materials of burials dated to the 1st–3rd c. AD.
Khudaverdyan A.Yu. +4 more
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THE SOUTH-EASTERN BORDER REGION OF THE HITTITE STATE [PDF]
Tegarama was one of the eastern lands of the Hittite Kingdom. In the geographic sense it is part of the Armenian Highland that is why its history is of special interest to us.
Ghazaryan Robert
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