Gregory Areshian
Gregory Areshian is an Armenian-American archeologist and historian who is a professor at American University of Armenia. He was the co-director of the international team of archeologists who, led by Boris Gasparyan, found the 5,500 years old shoe in and the oldest winery in Areni, of which Areshian said:
For the first time, we have a complete archaeological picture of wine production dating back 6,100 years.
Gregory Areshian taught in 14 US universities and colleges including University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Irvine, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, Amherst College. He is the author of more than 150 scholarly works published in 5 languages in 12 countries, mostly devoted to interdisciplinary studies in social sciences and the humanities with a special focus on the Middle East and Armenia in a broader historical context.
Education
Gregory Areshian received his bachelor's and master's degree from Yerevan State University where he studied from 1966 to 1973. From 1973 until 1975 Gregory Areshian pursued his PhD studies at the Saint Petersburg State University under the supervision of Boris Piotrovsky. His thesis was "Iron in Ancient Western Asia".Gregory Areshian knows 9 languages; English, Russian, Armenian, German, French, Latin, Turkish, Grabar and Urartian cuneiform.
Festschrift
In 2017 a Festschrift was published in honor of Gregory Areshian under the titleBridging Times and Spaces: Papers in Ancient Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian Studies. The editors of the volume were Pavel Avetisyan, a former student of Gregory Areshian and Yervand Grekyan.Books
- 2013 Empires and Diversity: On the Crossroads of Archaeology, History, and Anthropology. Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives, 7, Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, 256 pages + ill.
- 1996 Haykakan čartarapetutyan patmut’yun, Hator A. Co-authored with K.K. Ghafadaryan, K. L. Hovhannisian, and A.A. Sahinian, Yerevan: HH GAA “Gitut’yun” Hratarakchut’yun, Pp. 298 + pl. 48.
- 1993 Hnagitakan ashkhatank'nerǝ Hayastani norakaŕuytsnerum,1986-1987 t't' peghumneri ardyunk'nerǝ, Vol. 1. Co-edited with G.A. Tiratsian and A.A. Kalantarian, Yerevan: Publishing House of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, Pp. 171+ pl. 190.
- 1992 Editor of Hayastani hnagitut'yun, h. 1: K'ari Dar - Ush Bronzi Dar, by S.A. Yesayan, Yerevan: Yerevan University Press.
- 1990 Mezhdistsiplinarnye issledovanija kul’turogeneza i etnogeneza Armjanskogo nagor’ja i sopredel’nykh oblastej, Sbornik dokladov. Co-edited with S.A. Yesayan, Yerevan: Izdatel’stvo Erevanskogo Universiteta, Pp. 294.
Journal Articles
- 2016 Ani: Identities and Conflicts in and around a “Silk Road” City. In: H.A. Haviland, H.E.L. Prins, D. Walrath, and B. McBride, The Essence of Anthropology, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 136-ff.
- 2015 Areni. In: K.B. Metheny and M. C. Beaudry, Archaeology of Food, An Encyclopedia, vol. 1, Lanham-Boulder-New York-London: Rowman&Littlefield, 40.
- 2015 Wineries. In: K.B. Metheny and M. C. Beaudry, Archaeology of Food, An Encyclopedia, vol. 2, Lanham-Boulder-New York-London: Rowman&Littlefield, 551-52.
- 2014 Preliminary Results of the 2012 Excavations at the Late Neolithic Settlement of Masis Blur. In: B. Gasparyan and M. Arimura, Stone Age of Armenia: A Guidebook to the Stone Age Archaeology in the Republic of Armenia. Kanazawa : Kanazawa University, 177-190.
- 2014 Weaving the Ancient Past: Chalcolithic Basket and Textile Technology at the Areni-1 Cave, Armenia. In: B. Gasparyan and M. Arimura, Stone Age of Armenia: A Guidebook to the Stone Age Archaeology in the Republic of Armenia. Kanazawa : Kanazawa University, 219-232.
- 2013 The Age of Maturity. Backdirt 2013, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 4-5.
- 2013 A World of Archaeology: An Interview with Colin Renfrew on the Occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Backdirt 2013, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 32-45.
- 2013 Masis Blur: A Late Neolithic Settlement in the Plain of Ararat, Armenia. Backdirt 2013, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 142-146.
- 2013 Introduction: Variability and Complexity in Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies of Empires. In G. E. Areshian, Empires and Diversity: On the Crossroads of Archaeology, History, and Anthropology. Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives, 7, Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, 1-20.
- 2013 Sasanian Imperialism and the Shaping of Armenian Identity: Interdisciplinary Verification and Ambivalence of Empire-Nation Relationship. In G. E. Areshian, Empires and Diversity: On the Crossroads of Archaeology, History, and Anthropology. Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives, 7, Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, 146-163.
- 2012 Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in Armenia. In H. Simonyan, Archaeological Heritage of Armenia. Yerevan: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia, 8-12.
- 2012 How Archaeology is made: The Backdirt perspective. Backdirt 2012, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 5.
- 2012 Wine and Death: The 2010 excavation season at the Areni-1 cave complex, Armenia. Backdirt 2011, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 65-70.
- 2012 Backdirt: A Continuing Evolution. Backdirt 2011, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 4-5.
- 2012 The Chalcolithic of the Near East and southeastern Europe: discoveries and new perspectives from the cave complex Areni-1, Armenia. Antiquity 86, :115-130.
- 2012 Areni-1 Cave, Armenia: A Chalcolithic—Early Bronze Age settlement and ritual site in the southern Caucasus. Journal of Field Archaeology, vol. 37 :20-33.
- 2011 Chemical evidence for wine production around 4000 BCE in the Late Chalcolithic Near Eastern highlands. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38:977-984.
- 2010 Why We Do Need to Study Leonti Mroveli. Aramazd, Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 5:17-26.
- 2010 First Direct Evidence of Chalcolithic Footwear from the Near Eastern Highlands. PLoS ONE, 5: e10984, 1-5.
- 2009 Empires of Diversity. Backdirt, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 84-91.
- 2008 Die Beziehungen der Kulturen des Armenischen Hochlands und der Zentralgebiete Südkaukasiens zu Vorderasien und der Ägäis in der Trialeti-Epoche. Aramazd, Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 3:51-90.
- 2008 B.B. Piotrovsky and Armenia: Reminiscences of a Disciple. Aramazd, Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 3:140-153.
- 2008 B.B. Piotrovsky i Armenia: Portret pamjati. In: U podnozhija Ararata, Katalog vystavki, Backdirt, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 50-59.
- 2007 From Extended Families to Incipient Polities: The Trajectory of Social Complexity in the Early Bronze Age of the Ararat Plain. In L.M. Popova, C.W. Hartley, and A.T. Smith Social Orders and Social Landscapes: Proceedings of the 2005 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 26-54.
- 2007 High above Mesopotamia: An Archaeological Summer in the Central Near Eastern Highlands. Backdirt, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 28 – 31.
- 2006 Early Bronze Age Settlements in the Ararat Plain and its Vicinity. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan. Vol. 37 :71 – 88.
- 2006 Cyclopes from the Land of the Eagle: Anatolian Background of Odyssey 9 and of the Greek Myths Concerning the Cyclopes. In K. Jones-Bley, M.E. Huld, A. Della Volpe, and M.R. Dexter Proceedings of the 17th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 31 – 50.
- 2006 Sequences of Signs: Eurasian Archaeology from a Perspective of Cultural Semiotics. In D.L. Peterson, L.M. Popova, and A.T. Smith Beyond the Steppe and the Sown. Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 282 – 295.
- 2004 Herakles, the Sun-God-Archer, Týr, and Kerberos. In K. Jones-Bley, M.E. Huld, A. Della Volpe, and M.R. Dexter Proceedings of the 15th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 45 – 73.
- 2003 The Zoomorphic Code of the Proto-Indo-European Mythological Cycle of “Birth-Death-Resurrection”: A Linguistic-Archaeological Reconstruction. In K. Jones-Bley, M.E. Huld, A. Della Volpe, and M.R. Dexter Proceedings of the 14th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 228 – 249.
- 1995 Democratic Society or Efficient State? A Continuing Armenian Dilemma. Armenian Review 46, No. 1 – 4/181 – 184 : 203 – 215.
- 1992 Armenian and Indo-European Cosmogonic Myths and their Development. In J.A.C. Greppin, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Armenian Linguistics, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, 1 – 36.
- 1992 Arkheologija i istoricheskij sintez . Vestnik Drevnej Istorii, No. 4 :16 – 27.
- 1991 Sootnoshenie tipov khozjajstva i razvitie kul’tur v rannem i srednem bronzovom veke Armjanskogo Nagor’ja i Juzhnogo Kavkaza. In Ju. V. Bromlej, Mirovaja kul’tura: traditsii i sovremennost’. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 75 – 83.
- 1991 Kul’tura i operatsional’nye ierarkhicheskie struktury arkheologicheskikh istochnikov. In V. M. Masson, V.N. Borjaz, M.V. Anikovich, Arkheologicheskie kul’tury i kul’turnaja transformatsija, Arkheologicheskie izyskanija, no. 1. Leningrad: Institut Arkheologii AN SSSR, 93 – 99.
- 1991 Aruči dambanateghi No. 5 dambaranə,. In Hayastani Hanrapetut’yunum dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac gitakan nstashrjan, 1989 – 1990. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, 24 – 26.
- 1991 Adabluri peghumnerə. In Hayastani Hanrapetut’yunum dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac gitakan nstashrjan, 1989 – 1990. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, 8 – 11.
- 1991 Ushashelyan norahayt hnavayr Aparani shrjanum. In Hayastani Hanrapetut’yunum dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac gitakan nstashrjan, 1989 – 1990. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, 4 – 5.
- 1990 K issledovaniju obschikh zakonomernostey osvoenija prirodnykh resursov drevnimi kul’turami. In S.A. Yesayan and G. E. Areshian Mezhdistsiplinarnye issledovanija kul’turogeneza i etnogeneza Armjanskogo nagor’ja i sopredel’nykh oblastej, Sbornik dokladov. Yerevan: Izdatel’stvo Erevanskogo Universiteta, 59 – 65.
- 1990 Les éleveurs non sédentaires et les civilisations agricoles à l’Age du Bronze sur le Plateau Arménien et au Caucase méridional. In H.- P. Francfort, Nomades et sédentaires en Asie Centrale. Paris: Éditions du CNRS, 19-25.
- 1990 Hnagitut’yunə ev Urartu – Hayastan problemə. With G.A. Tiratsyan, HGA Patma-banasirakan Handes, no. 3:70-75.
- 1990 Further Thoughts on the Uruk Expansion. Current Anthropology 31:396-399.
- 1990 Konets srednego bronzovogo veka v mezhdurech’e Araksa i Kury. With V.E. Oganesyan, F.M. Muradyan, P.S. Avetisyan, and L.A. Petrosyan. Istoriko-filologicheskiï zhurnal AN Arm. SSR, no. 1:53-74.
- 1989 Rol’ neosedlykh skotovodov v razvitii tsivilizatsiï Evrazii. In Vzaimodeïstvie kochevykh kul’tur i drevnikh tsivilizatsiï. Alma-Ata: “Nauka” Kazakhskoï SSR, 21 – 24.
- 1989 T’rialet’yan mshakut’ayin darashrjanə ev nra zhamanakagrakan dirk’ə. In Haykakan SSH-um dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac gitakan nstashrjan, 1987 – 1988. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, 17 – 19.
- 1989 Joghazi hushardzanakhmbi hnagitakan usumnasirut’yunnerə, 1987. With H. Ye. Simonyan, In Haykakan SSH-um dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac gitakan nstashrjan, 1987 – 1988. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, 5 – 7.
- 1989 Etapy urbanizatsii na Armjanskom nagor’e. In Zony i etapy urbanizatsii. Tashkent: “Fan” Press, 41 – 43.
- 1989 K obosnovaniju metodov issledovanija kul’turnykh i etnicheskikh kontaktov v drevnosti. Sovetskaja Etnografija, no. 2:45 – 55.
- 1988 Éléments indoeuropéens dans la mythologie du Plateau Armenien et du Caucase du Sud au IIe mil. Av J.-C. In P. Vavroušek and V. Souček, Šulmu: Papers on the Ancient Near East. Prague: Charles University Press, 19 – 37.
- 1988 Indoevropejskij sjuzhet v mifologii naselenija mezhdurech’ja Kury i Araksa II tysjacheletija do n.e.. Vestnik Drevnej Istorii, no. 4:84 – 102.
- 1988 Raboty v Idzhevanskom rajone. With H. Ye. Simonyan. In V. P. Shilov, Arkheologicheskie otkrytija 1986 g.. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 469.
- 1987 Osvoenie bronzy i zheleza na Blizhnem Vostoke i v sopredel’nykh oblastjakh – voprosy sravnitel’no-istoricheskogo analiza. In Tekhnologicheskij i kul’turnyj progress v rannezemledel’cheskuju epokhu. Ashgabat, 7 – 9.
- 1987 Hnagitut’yan zargatsumə Sovetakan Hayastanum. Banber Erevani Hamalsarani, Hasarakakan gitut’yunner, no. 3:108 – 120.
- 1987 Hnaguyn zhamanakashrjani čartarapetut’yunə. In “Sovetakan Hayastan,” Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran. Yerevan, 518.
- 1987 Nakhnadaryan-hamaynakan hasarakargə. In “Sovetakan Hayastan,” Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran. Yerevan, 88 – 90, pl. II.
- 1987 Maisjanskie kurgany. In V. P. Shilov, Arkheologicheskie otkrytija 1985 g.. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 558 – 559.
- 1987 K interpretatsii semantiki bronzovoj skul’ptury Lchashena i Lori-berda. In VI respublikanskaja nauchnaja konferentsija po problemam kul’tury i iskusstva Armenii. Yerevan, 80 – 81.
- 1987 T’reghk’i “K’orukht’ash” dambanabluri gavat’i patkerayin kompozitsiayi meknabanman p’ordz. In Hanrapetakan gitakan nstashrjan nvirvac 1984 – 1985 t.t. azgagrakan ev banagitakan dashtayin hetazotut’yunneri ardyunk’nerin. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 11-13.
- 1987 Joghazi norahayt dambarannerə. With H. Ye. Simonyan and S. E. Gasparyan. In Haykakan SSH-um dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac gitakan nstashrjan, 1985 – 1986. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 6 – 8.
- 1986 Raskopki v Maisjane. In V. P. Shilov Arkheologicheskie otkrytija 1984 goda.. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 427 – 428.
- 1985 Hnagitakan hetazotut’yunneri laboratoriayi 1984 t’. dashtayin ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerits. With E. Asatryan and H. Ohanyan. Erevani Hamalsaran, Lratu, no. 2:14 – 16.
- 1985 Hayagitakan kentroni 1979 – 1983 t’.t.’ dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’nerə. With E. Asatryan. In Banber Erevani Hamalsarani, Hasarakakan gitut’yunner, no. 3:202 – 210.
- 1985 Otrazhenie indoevropejskoj mifologii v pamjatnikakh iskusstva Vostochnoj Armenii srednego i pozdnego bronzovogo veka. In IV mezhdunarodnyj simpozium po armjanskomu iskusstvu. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 24 – 26.
- 1985 Okhrannye raskopki v Maisjane. In R. M. Munchaev, Arkheologicheskie otkrytija 1983 goda.. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 494 – 495.
- 1985 Novonajdennoe kurgannoe pole u juzhnogo podnozh’ja gory Aragats. In Vsesojuznaja arkheologicheskaja konferentsija “Dostizhenija sovetskoj arkheologii v XI pjatiletke”. Baku: “Elm” Press, 63 – 65.
- 1985 Shamirami hushardzanakhmbi sistematik peghumneri tasnamyakə. In Haykakan SSH-um dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac gitakan nstashrjan, 1983 – 1984. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 13 – 15.
- 1983 Redkin-Lager. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 9, Yerevan, 619.
- 1983 Jeyt’unyan mshakuytə. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 9, Yerevan, 485.
- 1983 Jarmo. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 9, Yerevan, 478 – 479.
- 1983 Raskopki Bol’shikh Shamiramskikh kurganov. In B. A. Rybakov, Arkheologicheskie otkrytija 1981 goda.. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 425 – 426.
- 1983 Hnagitakan aghbyurnerum mshakut’ayin ev et’nikakan p’okhazdetsut’yunneri artatsolman problemə. In Haykakan SSH-um dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac gitakan nstashrjan, 1981 – 1982 t’t’. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 6 – 8.
- 1982 Çayönü Tepesi. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 8, Yerevan, 666 – 667.
- 1982 Çatal Höyük. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 8, Yerevan, 659.
- 1982 Shertagrut’yun hnagitakan. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 8, Yerevan, 488.
- 1982 Shanidar. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 8, Yerevan, 449 – 450.
- 1982 Shamiram. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 8, Yerevan, 441 – 442.
- 1982 Neolit’. With S. Sardaryan. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 8, Yerevan, 226 – 227.
- 1982 Nazrvan. With S. Hovannisyan. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 8, Yerevan, 145.
- 1982 K probleme otnositel’noj nezavisimosti razvitija kul’tury i sotsial’noj organizatsii. . In V. M. Masson and Ė. V. Khanzadyan Kul’turnyj progress v ėpokhu bronzy i rannego zheleza. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 13 – 16.
- 1982 Sovremennoe sostojanie izuchenija arkhitektury Shengavitskoj arkheologicheskoj kul’tury . In V respublikanskaja nauchnaja konferentsija po problemam kul’tury i iskusstva Armenii. Yerevan, 19 – 21, 256 – 258.
- 1982 Obobshchestvlenie drevnostej. Banber Erevani Hamalsarani, Hasarakakan gitut’yunner, no. 2:72 – 78.
- 1982 On the Problem of Cultural and Ethnic Interaction of Europe with Armenian Highland and Adjacent Regions in Antiquity. In Problems of the European Ethnography and Folklore. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 132 – 135.
- 1982 Hayastanum mec əntanik’i aŕajatsman khndirə hnagitakan nor tvyalneri lusabanmamb. In Haykakan SSH GA Hnagitut’yan ev Azgagrut’yan Instituti gitakan nstashrjan nvirvac SSHM kazmavorman 60-amyakin. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 5 – 7.
- 1981 Istoriko-materialisticheskaja kontseptsija obshchestvennogo razdelenija truda I nekotorye dannye arkheologii. In Marksistsko-leninskaja filosofija i voprosy metodologii istorii i arkheologii. Ashgabat, 143 – 146.
- 1981 Kura-Araxes Art. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Armenian Art. Vol. 1, Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 88 – 97.
- 1981 Mokhrablur. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 7, Yerevan, 693.
- 1981 Mshakuyt’ hnagitakan. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 7, Yerevan, 657.
- 1981 Menuayi Jrantsk’. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 7, Yerevan, 464 – 465.
- 1981 Malak’lu. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 7, Yerevan, 153.
- 1981 Kul’turnyj traditsionalizm na primere kuro-araksskoj kul’tury. In metodologicheskogo seminara Leningradskogo Otdelenija Instituta Arkheologii. Leningrad: “Nauka” Press, 49 – 52.
- 1981 Hushardzanneri peghumner Norabats ev Nerk’in Charbakh gyugheri mijev. With S.H. Devejian and H. Ŕ. Israyelyan, in Haykakan SSH-um dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac gitakan nstashrjan, 1979 – 1980 t’t’. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 25 – 27.
- 1981 Pahpanakan peghumner K’anageghi dambaranadashtum. In Haykakan SSH-um dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac gitakan nstashrjan, 1979 – 1980 t’t’. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 2 – 4.
- 1980 Hnagitut’yun. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 6, Yerevan, 460 – 461.
- 1980 K’ur-arak’syan mshakuyt’. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 6, Yerevan, 26 – 27.
- 1980 Ėlementy religioznykh predstavlenij ėpokhi zarozhdenija gorodskoj tsivilizatsii . In B.A. Rybakov Ideologicheskie predstavlenija drevnejshikh obshchestv. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 53 – 58.
- 1980 Norabats – novyj pamjatnik ėpokhi bronzy. In B. A. Rybakov, Arkheologicheskie otkrytija 1979 goda.. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 423.
- 1980 Kul’turno-istoricheskoe ob’’jasnenie v arkheologii. In V.M. Masson, Metodika arkheologicheskogo issledovanija i zakonomernosti razvitija drevnikh obshchestv. Ashgabat, 12 – 13.
- 1980 O sootnoshenii issledovanija s okhranoj, vosstanovleniem i ispol’zovaniem arkheologicheskikh pamjatnikov. In Problemy okhrany pamjatnikov arkheologii v naselennykh mestakh. Materialy Vsesojuznoj Konferentsii, Yerevan: Yerevan University Press, 32 – 35.
- 1979 Kurgany Arucha. In B. A. Rybakov Arkheologicheskie otkrytija 1978 goda.. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 518 – 519.
- 1979 Hayagitakan kentroni 1977 – 1978 t’.t’. dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’nerə,. With H. Simonyan, G. Sargsyan, G. Kocharian, and H. Ohanyan, Banber Erevani Hamalsarani, Hasarakakan gitut’yunner, no. 2:205 – 224.
- 1979 Nekotorye voprosy istorii arkhitektury drevnezemledel’cheskikh kul’tur Armjanskogo hagor’ja i Juzhnogo Kavkaza. With K.K. Ghafadarian, in IV respublikanskaja nauchnaja konferentsija po problemam kul’tury i iskusstva Armenii. Yerevan, 14 – 16, 160 – 162.
- 1979 Nor nyut’er Hayastani m.t’.a. 3-rd hazaramyaki erkragorcakan tekhnikakan kulturaneri masin’. In B. N. Arakelian Haykakan SSH-um 1977-1978 t’t’. dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac zekutsumneri t’ezisner.. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 12-14.
- 1978 Trialeti. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 4, Yerevan, 227.
- 1978 T’ghit’. In Haykakan Sovetakan Hanragitaran, vol. 4, Yerevan, 192.
- 1978 Voprosy tipologii naselennykh punktov Armenii pozdnego bronzovogo I rannego zheleznogo vekov Gosudarstvennyj muzej iskusstva narodov Vostoka, Nauchnye soobshchenija, Vol. 10, Moscow, 91 – 108.
- 1978 Issledovanija v Shamirame. In B. A. Rybakov, Arkheologicheskie otkrytija 1977 goda.. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 503 – 505.
- 1978 Izuchenie stratigrafii Mokhrablura. In B.A. Rybakov, Arkheologicheskie otkrytija 1977 goda.. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 503 – 505.
- 1978 Kul’turno-istoricheskij podkhod k izucheniju ėtnicheskikh obshchnostej v arkheologii. In Ė. S. Markarian, Metodologicheskie problemy issledovanija ėtnicheskikh kul’tur, simpoziuma. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 33 – 41.
- 1977 Hayagitakan kentroni 1976 t’vakani dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’nerə. With H. Simonyan and G. Sargsyan. Banber Erevani Hamalsarani, Hasarakakan gitut’yunner, no. 3:266 – 274.
- 1977 Rannij gorod kak spetsificheskaja forma sotsiokul’turnoj organizatsii. In: Drevnie goroda, Vsesojuznoj konferentsii “Kul’tura Srednej Azii i Kazakhstana v ėpokhu rannego srednevekov’ja,” Pendzhikent 1977. Leningrad, “Nauka” Press, 15 – 16.
- 1977 1975 – 1976 t’.t’. Shamirami hushardzanakhmbi usumnasirut’yan nakhnakan ardyunk’nerə. In B. N. Arakelian Haykakan SSH-um 1975-1976 t’t’. dashtayin hnagitakan ashkhatank’neri ardyunk’nerin nvirvac zekutsumneri t’ezisner.. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 12-14.
- 1977 Die frühe Klassengesellschaft im nord-östlichen Armenischen Hochland. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeshichte, no. 1:97 – 108.
- 1977 Hnagitakan hetazotut’yunner Haykakan SSH Ashtaraki ev Nairii shrjannerum. Haykakan SSH GA Lraber hasarakakan gitut’yunneri, no. 4:77 – 93.
- 1977 Arkhitektura pogrebal’nykh sooruzhenij Glavnogo nekropolja Shamirama. With S. S. Hakopyan, in III respublikanskaja nauchnaja konferentsija po problemam kul’tury i iskusstva Armenii. Yerevan, 98 – 99.
- 1976 Arkheologija v sisteme dialektiko-materialisticheskoj klassifikatsii nauk. In B.A. Rybakov, Istorizm arkheologii: metodologicheskie problemy. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 37 – 38.
- 1976 EPH Hayagitakan hetazotut’yunneri laboratoriaji 1975 t’. katarac hnagitakan ashkhatank’nerə. With H. Ye. Simonyan, Banber Erevani Hamalsarani, Hasarakakan gitut’yunner, no. 1:284 – 288.
- 1976 Osvoenie zheleza v Ėgeide i na Blizhnem Vostoke – zakonomernosti razvitija tsivilizatsii, znanija i myshlenija. In XIV mezhdunarodnaja konferentsija antichnikov sotsialisticheskikh stran “Ėirene”. Yerevan: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, 18 – 21.
- 1976 Poselenija III – I tysjacheletij do n.ė. v severnykh predgor’jakh Araratskoj doliny. In II respublikanskaja nauchnaja konferentsija po problemam kul’tury i iskusstva Armenii. Yerevan, 103 – 105.
- 1976 Zhelezo v kul’yure drevnej Perednej Azii I bassejna Ėgejskogo morja . Sovetskaja arkheologija, no. 1:87 – 99.
- 1975 Pervye zheleznye izdelija Blizhnego Vostoka i Balkanskogo poluostrova. Haykakan SSH GA Lraber hasarakakan gitut’yunneri, no. 12:86 – 99.
- 1975 Rozhdenie monumental’noi arkhitektury na territorii Armenii . With K.K. Ghafadarian, in Pamyatniki kul’tury, novye otkrytiya, Ezhegodnik 1974. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 397-403.
- 1975 Zhelezo v drevnej Zapadnoj Azii. A published summary of the Ph.D. Dissertation. Leningrad: Institute of Archaeology, 29 pages.
- 1974 Mokhrablur bnakavajri storin sherteri bnut’agrman shurj. In P.M. Muradyan Hayagitakan hetazotut’yunner, vol. I, Yerevan: Yerevan University Press, 144 – 154.
- 1974 Pannezemledel’cheskaja kul’tura Armjanskogo nagor’ja i Perednjaja Azija. In Formy perekhoda ot prisvaivajushchego khozjajstva k proizvodjashchemu i osobennosti razvitija obshchestvennogo stroja. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 72 – 76.
- 1974 Drevnejshie tsentry metallurgii zheleza v Zapadnoj Azii i Vostochnom Sredizemnomor’e. Vestnik Yerevanskogo Universiteta, Obshchestvennye nauki, no. 3:124 – 138.
- 1974 O rannem ėtape osvojenija zheleza v Armenii i na Juzhnom Kavkaze. Istoriko-filologicheskij zhurnal AN Arm. SSR, no. 2:192 – 212.
- 1973 Otkrytie monumental’nogo kul’tovogo sooruzhenija nachala III tysjacheletija do n. ė. v Armenii. With K.K. Ghafadarian, in B.A. Rybakov Arkheologicheskie otkrytija 1972 goda.. Moscow: “Nauka” Press, 443.
- 1972 K vydeleniju rannezeledel’cheskikh kul’tur Armjanskogo nagor’ja I Juzhnogo Kavkaza. In V. M. Masson Kamennyj vek Srednej Azii i Kazakhstana. Tashkent: “Fan” Press, 57 – 58.
- 1972 Nekotorye itogi rabot Mokhrablurskoj arkheologicheskoj ėkspeditsii 1970 – 1971 g.g.. Sessija posvjashchennaja itogam polevykh arkheologicheskikh issledovanij 1971 goda. Moscow, 221 – 222.
- 1972 Metaghagorcut’yunə Homerosi “Iliakanum”. In respublikanskoj nauchnoj konferentsii molodykh nauchnykh rabotnikov po gumanitarnym naukam, Yerevan, 239 – 240.
- 1972 iz paskopok Mokhrablura 1970 goda. Vestnik Yerevanskogo Universiteta, Obshchestvennye nauki, no. 1:253 – 258.
- 1971 Moŕatsvac bnakavayrer Arak’si ap’in. Erevani Hamalsaran, Lratu, no. 11:28 – 31.
- 1970 Orudija truda Artikskogo mogil’nika. Istoriko-filologicheskij zhurnal AN Arm. SSR, no. 3:251 – 260.
- 1970 O nekotorykh pogrebenijakh Artikskogo nekropolja. Molodoj nauchnyj rabotnik Erevanskogo Universiteta, no. 1:211 – 218.
- 1970 iz raskopok Karmirberdskogo mogil’nika v Muzee Gruzii. Vestnik Yerevanskogo Universiteta, Obshchestvennye nauki, no. 1:239 – 247.
- 1969 Hnagitakan nor haytnagorcut’yunner Debedi avazanum. Patma-banasirakan handes, no. 1: 269 – 275.
Book and Conference Reviews
- 2014 Archaeology and Multidisciplinarity in a Regional and Ethnic Context: An International Conference at the Cotsen Institute. Backdirt 2014, Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 112-113.
- 2009 Review of Rouben Galichian, The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Showcasing of Imagination. London: Gomidas Institute, 2009; Yerevan: Printinfo Art Books, 2009, pp. 119, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2:136-138.
- 2007 Review of A. Y. Petrosyan, The Indo-European and Ancient Near Eastern Sources of the Armenian Epic: Myth and History, Indo-European Studies Bulletin, Vol.12, No. 1: 8-12.
- 2006 Review of Adam T. Smith and Karen S. Rubinson, Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond, American Journal of Archaeology 110: 513 – 514.
- 2003 Discovering Eurasian Opportunities. Review of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, Backdirt, Newsletter of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Fall 2002/Winter 2003, p. 8.
- 1988 Soveshchanie v Otdelenii Istorii Akademii nauk SSSR. With L. Abrahamyan, Haykakan SSH GA Lraber hasarakakan gitut’yunneri, no. 6: 93 – 96.
- 1987 Chetvertyj mezhdunarodnyj simpozium po armjanskomu iskusstvu, Sektsija “Iskusstvo drevnej Armenii. Narodnoe i prikladnoe iskusstvo”. Sovetskoe iskusstvoznanie, vol. 22, Moscow: “Sovetskij khudozhnik” Press, 440 – 443.
- 1986 Mijazgayin konferans nvirvac hin Aŕajavor Asiayi patmut’yan, hnagitut’yan, lezvabanut’yan ev banasirut’yan hartserin. Patma-banasirakan handes, no. 4: 240 – 242.
- 1977 Gitakan nstashrjan nvirvac Haykakan SSH-um 1975 – 1976 t’.t’. dashtayin hnagitakan hetazotut’yunneri ardyunk’nerin. Patma-banasirakan handes, no. 3: 261 – 264.