The settlement of Aknashen-Khatunarkh, a Neolithic site in the Ararat plain (Armenia): Excavation results 2004-2009

TUBA-AR

Volumn 13, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 185-218

  Badalyan, Ruben S ^a   Harutyunyan, Armine A ^a   Chataigner, Christine ^b   Mort, Françoise L E ^b   Chabot, Jacques ^c   Brochier, Jacques Elie ^d   Balasescu, Adrian ^e   Radu, Valentin ^e   Hovsepyan, Roman ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Armenia)

^b University Lumière Lyon 2   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e National Museum of Art of Romania   (Romania)

Author keywords

Armenia; Early Chalcolithic; Late Neolithic; Southern Caucasus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861789404     PISSN: 13018566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22520/tubaar.2010.0011     Document Type: Article

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