Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE)·Kura-Araxes·🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
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About Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension 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 chamber 11 × 4 m and ancillary features including stratified deposits and lithic/ceramic assemblages. The location at 40.1433N 44.5215E 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
- 01Nature of burial rites and population
- 02Landscape function
Theories
- 01Ancestral burial reuse over centuries
- 02Astronomical alignment hypothesis
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 — Southern Extension main structure
c. 1463 BCE
Secondary refurbishment / reuse phase documented stratigraphically at Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension
1983–2011
Modern excavation and survey (campaigns at Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension) with geophysical prospection
On the ground
Structures & features
40.1433° N · 44.5215° E · 1009 m · 3 mapped features
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension — Main Ancient-Village Feature
plazaPrimary plaza at Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension — central chambered cairn with stratified deposits
40.1418° N · 44.5224° EShengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension — Secondary Enclosure
reservoirAncillary reservoir at Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension — enclosure wall with stratified deposits
40.1433° N · 44.5230° EShengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension — Outlier Rock Art Panel
moundOutlier mound panel linked to Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension ceremonial landscape
40.1426° N · 44.5204° E