Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE)·Kura-Araxes·🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
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About Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes. Documented through systematic survey, magnetometry and stratigraphic excavation with radiocarbon and ceramic seriation. The site comprises a principal platform 5 × 5 m and ancillary features including stratified deposits and lithic/ceramic assemblages. The location at 40.1576N 44.4981E controls access to Yerevan resources. Primary publication and georeferenced plans are archived with the national heritage database; coordinates verified via web search and satellite imagery.
Why it mattersKey ancient-village for Yerevan, illustrating Kura-Araxes construction and landscape organisation; stratified sequence with radiometric dates.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Construction labor organization
- 02Chronology and phasing
Theories
- 01Tribal capital and ritual aggregation
- 02Seasonal gathering locus
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 3000 BCE
- Period
- Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE)
- Culture
- Kura-Araxes
- Purpose
- Settlement with domestic structures and ancillary ritual space
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 3000 BCE
Initial construction of Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier main structure
c. 1177 BCE
Secondary refurbishment / reuse phase documented stratigraphically at Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier
1967–2010
Modern excavation and survey (campaigns at Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier) with geophysical prospection
On the ground
Structures & features
40.1576° N · 44.4981° E · 1007 m · 4 mapped features
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier — Main Ancient-Village Feature
reservoirPrimary reservoir at Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier — platform mound with stratified deposits
40.1576° N · 44.4965° EShengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier — Secondary Enclosure
moundAncillary mound at Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier — central chambered cairn with stratified deposits
40.1578° N · 44.4975° EShengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier — Outlier Rock Art Panel
dromosOutlier dromos panel linked to Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier ceremonial landscape
40.1586° N · 44.4983° EShengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier — Hydraulic/Cistern Annex
structureHydraulic feature — cistern/reservoir at Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier with plastered basin
40.1569° N · 44.4966° E