Publications

Books and Monographs

The Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies, Volume 1: The Foundations of Research and Regional Survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain by Adam T. Smith, Ruben Badalyan, & Pavel Avetisyan (with contributions by Alan Greene and Leah Minc)	Bronze and Early Iron Age Archaeological Sites in Armenia, volume 1: Mt. Aragats and its Surrounding Region by R. S. Badalyan and P. S. Avetisyan
The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities By Adam T. Smith	Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond Edited by Adam T. Smith and Karen S. Rubinson
Social Orders and Social Landscapes: Proceedings of the 2005 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology Edited by Laura Popova, Charles Hartley, and Adam T. Smith	Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology Edited by David Peterson, Laura Popova, and Adam T. Smith

Reports

Avetisyan, P., R. Badalyan and A. T. Smith

            2000   Preliminary Report on the 1998 Archaeological Investigations of Project ArAGATS in the Tsakahovit Plain, Armenia. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 42(1):19-59.

 Badalyan, R., P. Avetisyan and A. T. Smith

            2004   Proekt ArAGATS—Issledovanie Pamyatnikov Pozdnego Bronzovogo Beka v Tsakhkaovitskoj Ravninie. In Mezhdunarodnaya Nauchnaya Konferentsiya «Arkheologiya, Etnologiya, Fol'kloristika Kavkaza» Sbornik Kratkikh Soderzhanij Dokladov, pp. 34-35. Nekeri, Tbilisi.

Badalyan, R., A. T. Smith, I. Lindsay, L. Khatchadourian and P. Avetisyan

            2008    Village, Fortress, and Town in Bronze and Iron Age Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2003-2006 Investigations of Project ArAGATS on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 40:45-105.

Badalyan, R. S., P. Avetisyan and A. T. Smith

            2005   Svyatilishche Pozdnego Bronzovogo Veka Gekharota. In Hin Hayastani Mshakooyte XIII, edited by A. A. Kalantaryan, R. Badalyan and P. Avetisyan, pp. 109-115. Mughni, Yerevan.

Badalyan, R. S., A. T. Smith and P. S. Avetisyan

            2003   The Emergence of Socio-Political Complexity in Southern Caucasia. In Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond, edited by A. T. Smith and K. Rubinson, pp. 144-166. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Los Angeles.

Lindsay, I.

            2006   Late Bronze Age Power Dynamics in Southern Caucasia: A Community Perspective on Political Landscapes. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Anthropology.

Smith, A. T., R. Badaljan and P. Avetissian

            1999   The Crucible of Complexity. Discovering Archaeology 1(2):48-55.

Smith, A. T., R. Badalyan, P. Avetisyan and M. Zardaryan

            2004   Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2002 Investigations by Project ArAGATS on the Tsakahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia. American Journal of Archaeology 108:1-41.

Smith, A. T., R. S. Badalyan and P. S. Avetisyan

            2005   Southern Caucasia During the Late Bronze Age: An Interim Report on the Regional Investigations of Project ArAGATS in Western Armenia. In Anatolian Iron Ages: Proceedings of the fifth Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium Held at Van, 6-10 August 2001, edited by A. Çilingiroglu and G. Darbyshire, pp. 175-185. The British Institute at Ankara, Ankara.

Related Publications by ArAGATS Members

Avetisyan, H. G. and P. S. Avetisyan

      2006         Araratyan Dashti Mshakuyte m.t.a. XI-VI Darerum. Yerevani Hamalsaranumi Hratarakchutyun, Yerevan.

Avetisyan, P.

      2003         Hayastani Mijin Bronzi Zhamanakagrutyoone ev Pulabazhanoome (Avtoreferat Kandidatskoe Dissertatsii). Akademiya Nauk, Yerevan.

Badalyan, R., C. Chataigner and P. L. Kohl

      2004         Trans-Caucasian Obsidian: The Exploitation of the Sources and Their Distribution. In A View from the Highlands: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney, edited by A. Sagona, pp. 437-465. Peeters, Leuven.

Badalyan, R., P. Lombard, C. Chataigner and P. Avetisyan

      2004         The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Phases in the Ararat Plain (Armenia): The View from Aratashen. In A View from the Highlands: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney, edited by A. Sagona, pp. 399-420. Peeters, Leuven.

Badalyan, R. S.

      2002         Obsidian Kavkaza: Istochniki i Rasprostranenie Cyr'ya v Epokhu Neolita-Rannego Zheleza. Avtoreferat, Academy of Sciences, Yerevan.

      2002         Obsidian Kavkaza: Istochniki i Rasprostranenie Cyr'ya v Epokhu Neolita-Rannego Zheleza. Avtoreferat, Academy of Sciences, Yerevan.

      2003         Rannebronzovoe Poselenie Aparan III. Drevhejshaya Kul'tura Armenii 3:20-26.

Badalyan, R. S., P. Avetisyan, P. Lombard and C. Chataigner

      2005         Poselenie Aratashen. Kul'tura Drevney Armenii XIII:34-41.

Khatchadourian, L.

      in press    Unforgettable Landscapes: Attachments to the Past in Hellenistic Armenia. In Negotiating the Past in the Past: Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Theory, edited by N. Yoffee. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Lindsay, I.

      in press    Recent Methodological and Technical Advances in the Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Residential Complexes, Tsaghkahovit Plain. In Archaeology of Armenia in the Regional Context: Achievements and Perspectives, edited by P. Avetisyan and G. Areshian. Academy of Sciences Press, Yerevan.

       in press     Holding Down the Fort: Dynamics of Late Bronze Age Community Formation and Political Landscape Production in the Southern Caucasus. In The Archeaology of Politics: The Materiality of Political Practice and Action in the Past, edited by P.G. Johanson and A.M. Bauer. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

       2007         The Tsaghkahovit South Lower Town, Armenia: Recent Excavations at a late Bronze Age Fortress Settlement. In Social Orders and Social landscapes: Proceedings of the 2005 University of Chciago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, edited by L. Popova, C. Hartley, and A.T. Smith, pp. 253-275. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Lindsay, I., L. Minc, C. Descantes, R.J. Speakman, and M.D. Glascock

       2008     Exchange Patterns, Boundary Formation, and Sociopolitical Change in Late Bronze Age Southern Caucasia: Preliminary Results from a Pottery Provenance Study in Northwestern Armenia. Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 1673-1682.

Lindsay, I. and A. T. Smith

      2006         A History of Archaeological Practices in Armenia and the South Caucasus. Journal of Field Archaeolgy 31(2):165-184.

Lindsay, I., A.T. Smith, and R. Badalyan

     2010     Magnetic Survey in the Investigation of Sociopolitical Change at a Late Bronze Age Fortress Settlement in Northwestern Armenia. Archaeological Prospection, 17(1): 15-27.

 

 

Marshall, M. E. and R. Mkrtchyan

     2011     Armenia/Hayastan. In The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation: An international guide to laws and practice of in the excavation and treatment of human remains, edited by Nicholas Marquez Grant and Lind Fibiger, p. 19-34. Routledge, Oxford.

Smith, A. T.

      1996         Imperial Archipelago: The Making of the Urartian Landscape in Southern Transcaucasia. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

      1998         Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Fortresses of the Ararat and Shirak Plains, Armenia: Typological Considerations. Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 5(2):73-97.

      1999         The Making of an Urartian Landscape in Southern Transcaucasia: A Study of Political Architectonics. American Journal of Archaeology 103(1):45-71.

      2000         Rendering the Political Aesthetic: Ideology and Legitimacy in Urartian Representations of the Built Environment. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19:131-163.

      2001         The Limitations of Doxa: Agency and Subjectivity from an Archaeological Point of View. Journal of Social Archaeology 1(2):155-171.

       2004         Iron Age Caucasia. In Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.-A.D.1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, edited by P. Bogucki and P. J. Crabtree, pp. 303-311. Scribers, New York.

      2006         Prometheus Unbound: Southern Caucasia in Prehistory. Journal of World Prehistory 19(4):229-279.

      2006         Urartian Spectacle: Authority, Subjectivity, and Aesthetic Politics. In Spectacle, Performance, and Power in Premodern Complex Society, edited by T. Inomata and L. Coben, pp. 103-134. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek.

 Smith, A. T. and K. Rubinson (editors)

      2003         Archaeology in the Borderlands: Studies in Caucasia and Beyond. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Los Angeles.

Smith, A. T. and T. T. Thompson

      2004         Urartu and the Southern Caucasian Political Tradition. In A View from the Highlands: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney, edited by A. Sagona, pp. 557-580. Peeters, Leuven.