With the financial support of RA\u2019s Ministry of culture\u2019s \u201cService for the protection of historical-cultural museum-reserves and historical environment\u201d NCSO, archaeological excavations were implemented in Odzaberd ancient site situated between Gegharkunik region\u2019s Tsovinar and Artsvanist villages. This year the excavations were implemented in the fortress and outer settlement.<\/p>\n
In the fortress the excavations were implemented on the flat surface north-east to the citadel, where parts of buildings with regular architecture and entrances were opened. The thickness of the main wall is 3 meters, and the walls are 1.5 meters high. The thickness of the latter is about 2 meters.<\/p>\n
In the words of the head of archaeological expedition group Mikayel Badalyan a number of construction stages, that probably date back to 8-6th<\/sup> BC have been recorded. \u00a0Clay floor, burnt layers, as well as an amphora which dates back to the 7th<\/sup> BC were also excavated. Mikayel Badalyan mentioned that pitchers, heads of spindles, bones of animals were found.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s obvious that in the late period the level of the rooms\u2019 floor has raised. Structures with that kind of walls and architecture not seem to have been noticed in any iron age fortress of Sevan\u2019s southern basin\u201d, said M. Badalyan.<\/p>\n Excavations were implemented in the north-western part of the settlement. A part of a strong wall of 16 meters was opened. In the words of the head of expedition group they work on one part of the settlement\u2019s outer wall.<\/p>\n According to primary stratigraphic datum, this structure can date back to post- Urartu period- 7-6th<\/sup> BC.<\/p>\n Parts of movable fireplaces and various crockery, metal fragments, animal bones, and so on were excavated from this site. Funerals took place alongside the wall\u2019s north-western outer corner during the Hellenic period. Anthropological materials are now investigated by NCSO\u2019s scientific worker Hasmik Simonyan.<\/p>\n The results of the excavations implemented in Odzaberd in the last 5 years show that the monument has a great potential. It can become a significant historical-cultural and tourism center in the region.<\/p>\n The excavated sites of Odzaberd will be conserved till the last excavation period.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the financial support of RA\u2019s Ministry of culture\u2019s \u201cService for the protection of historical-cultural museum-reserves and historical environment\u201d NCSO, archaeological excavations were implemented in Odzaberd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}