Ruben Badalyan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1209430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruben Badalyan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruben |
| FAMILY NAME | Badalyan |
| SIGNATURE | BADALYAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0641-5341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Origins, endings and temporal pluralities
The Kura-Araxes culture spread over a large area of South-west Asia, participating in the transformational dynamics of Early Bronze Age societies in the region. Yet, the absence of a robust chronological framework for this cultural horizon hinders its integration into wider regional and interregional models. Drawing on a substantial new radiocarbon dataset, collating novel Bayesian chronological models for eight sites and existing data from the w…
The Neolithic Settlement of Aknashen (Ararat valley, Armenia)
International audience
Neolithic Settlement of Aknashen
Neolithic bone tools from Aknashen
The Project ArAgats Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey, Armenia
During four field seasons spanning 2014 through 2017, Project ArAGATS (Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies) expanded our long-term research on the origins and development of complex political systems in the South Caucasus with a comprehensive study of the upper Kasakh River valley in north-central Armenia. The Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey employed both systematic transect survey of 43 km2 and extensive satellite- …
Ancient Armenia at the crossroads
Dietary practices, cultural and social identity in the Early Bronze Age southern Caucasus
Food and its interactions with the environmental, economic, social, and cultural spheres play an essential role in communities’ cultural identity. This theory has been verified by an analysis of the Kura-Araxes (KA) culture, characterised by original cultural developments, which spread in the South Caucasus around the middle of the fourth millennium BC. This research aims to study the variability of dietary choices at the individual and populatio…
Project ArAgats 1998-2018
The year 2018 marked the 20th anniversary of the joint Armenian-American Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies, a collaboration more parsimoniously known as Project ArAGATS. The project was originally conceived as an effort to define long-term processes of social, economic, and political change in the South Caucasus across the Bronze and Iron Ages at a regional scale. In addition to introducing methods of i…
A new chronological model for the Bronze and Iron Age South Caucasus
Wood resource management based on charcoals from the Bronze Age site of Gegharot (central Armenia)
New data on the periodization and chronology of the Kura-Araxes culture in Armenia
This article discusses the following issues : The Kura-Araxes sequence was of discrete character ; its periodization can be dated in-between 3600/ 3500-2900 (KA I) and 2900-2600/ 2500 (KA II) BC. The discreteness of the Kura-Araxes phenomenon is refl ected in the largely single-layered character of both early (KA I) and late (KA II) settlements : a destructive layer demonstrates the discontinuity of certain multi-layered (KA I-II) settlements. Th…
Production animale et économie de subsistance au Néolithique dans la plaine de l'Ararat (Arménie)
Animal production and Neolithic subsistence economy in the plain of Ararat (Armenia) This contribution presents a preliminary comparative analysis of the archaeozoological data from two Neolithic sites in the plain of Ararat in Armenia : Aratashen and Khatunarkh-Aknashen, occupied during the 6th millennium B. C. The Neolithic period is poorly known in Armenia from the point of view of subsistence modes. The comparison of the results of the studie…
Ağri Ovasi, Ermeni̇stan Kesi̇mi̇nde Neoli̇ti̇k Bi̇r Yerleşi̇m Aknashen Khatunarkh
This paper presents the preliminary results of the excavations (2004-2009) of Aknashen-Khatunarkh, a Neolithic site in the plain of Ararat. More than 300 m 2 has been excavated of this tell, which is about 100 m in diameter and 3,5 m in height. The cultural layer, more than 4 m thick, was subdivided preliminarily into five horizons, the upper one (I) belonging to the Early Chalcolithic and the others (II-V) to the Late Neolithic. A series of 1…
Bet Yerah, Aparan Iii Ve Karnut
First results of the comparative technology of Kura-Araxes pottery and its derivatives are presented, including analyses ofKhirbet Kerak Ware and local traditions from Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet Kerak) and material from two sites in Armenia: the fourth millennium site ofAparan III and the third millennium site ofKar-nut I. Petrographic and chaine operatoire analysis suggests that all three industries are entirely local and share a series ofcharacte…
ArAgats PROJESİ
Since 1998, Project ArAGATS has conducted systematic investigations of the archaeological landscape of the Tsaghkahovit Plain in central Armenia. This contribution surveys the primary findings for three eras of extensive occupation of the region: the Early Bronze Age, the Late Bronze Age, and the Iron 3 (Achaemenid) period. Of particular importance to the wider archaeology of the South Caucasus are the new insights that this work has provided int…
Magnetic survey in the investigation of sociopolitical change at a Late Bronze age fortress settlement in northwestern Armenia
The construction of large stone fortresses across much of northern Armenia during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1150 BC ) represented a shift away from centuries of nomadic pastoralism, and also marked a profound transformation in the constitution of political authority and how social orders were mediated through the built environment. To date, however, little archaeological attention has been given to Late Bronze Age (LBA) settlements located ou…
Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia
The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1200 B.C.) in southern Caucasia marked the first appearance of a radically altered regional sociopolitical tradition founded upon newly empowered elites sequestered in fortified citadels. The archaeology of the era indicates a significant break from the preceding Middle Bronze Age, when large burial mounds and a dearth of settlement sites have long suggested the prevalence of pastoral nomadism and mobile sociopolitic…
Magnetic survey in the investigation of sociopolitical change at a Late Bronze age fortress settlement in northwestern Armenia
The construction of large stone fortresses across much of northern Armenia during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1150 BC ) represented a shift away from centuries of nomadic pastoralism, and also marked a profound transformation in the constitution of political authority and how social orders were mediated through the built environment. To date, however, little archaeological attention has been given to Late Bronze Age (LBA) settlements located ou…
Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia
The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1200 B.C.) in southern Caucasia marked the first appearance of a radically altered regional sociopolitical tradition founded upon newly empowered elites sequestered in fortified citadels. The archaeology of the era indicates a significant break from the preceding Middle Bronze Age, when large burial mounds and a dearth of settlement sites have long suggested the prevalence of pastoral nomadism and mobile sociopolitic…
A new chronological model for the Bronze and Iron Age South Caucasus
New data on the periodization and chronology of the Kura-Araxes culture in Armenia
This article discusses the following issues : The Kura-Araxes sequence was of discrete character ; its periodization can be dated in-between 3600/ 3500-2900 (KA I) and 2900-2600/ 2500 (KA II) BC. The discreteness of the Kura-Araxes phenomenon is refl ected in the largely single-layered character of both early (KA I) and late (KA II) settlements : a destructive layer demonstrates the discontinuity of certain multi-layered (KA I-II) settlements. Th…
Dietary practices, cultural and social identity in the Early Bronze Age southern Caucasus
Food and its interactions with the environmental, economic, social, and cultural spheres play an essential role in communities’ cultural identity. This theory has been verified by an analysis of the Kura-Araxes (KA) culture, characterised by original cultural developments, which spread in the South Caucasus around the middle of the fourth millennium BC. This research aims to study the variability of dietary choices at the individual and populatio…
Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia
The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1200 B.C.) in southern Caucasia marked the first appearance of a radically altered regional sociopolitical tradition founded upon newly empowered elites sequestered in fortified citadels. The archaeology of the era indicates a significant break from the preceding Middle Bronze Age, when large burial mounds and a dearth of settlement sites have long suggested the prevalence of pastoral nomadism and mobile sociopolitic…
Magnetic survey in the investigation of sociopolitical change at a Late Bronze age fortress settlement in northwestern Armenia
The construction of large stone fortresses across much of northern Armenia during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1150 BC ) represented a shift away from centuries of nomadic pastoralism, and also marked a profound transformation in the constitution of political authority and how social orders were mediated through the built environment. To date, however, little archaeological attention has been given to Late Bronze Age (LBA) settlements located ou…
Production animale et économie de subsistance au Néolithique dans la plaine de l'Ararat (Arménie)
Animal production and Neolithic subsistence economy in the plain of Ararat (Armenia) This contribution presents a preliminary comparative analysis of the archaeozoological data from two Neolithic sites in the plain of Ararat in Armenia : Aratashen and Khatunarkh-Aknashen, occupied during the 6th millennium B. C. The Neolithic period is poorly known in Armenia from the point of view of subsistence modes. The comparison of the results of the studie…
Ağri Ovasi, Ermeni̇stan Kesi̇mi̇nde Neoli̇ti̇k Bi̇r Yerleşi̇m Aknashen Khatunarkh
This paper presents the preliminary results of the excavations (2004-2009) of Aknashen-Khatunarkh, a Neolithic site in the plain of Ararat. More than 300 m 2 has been excavated of this tell, which is about 100 m in diameter and 3,5 m in height. The cultural layer, more than 4 m thick, was subdivided preliminarily into five horizons, the upper one (I) belonging to the Early Chalcolithic and the others (II-V) to the Late Neolithic. A series of 1…
Bet Yerah, Aparan Iii Ve Karnut
First results of the comparative technology of Kura-Araxes pottery and its derivatives are presented, including analyses ofKhirbet Kerak Ware and local traditions from Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet Kerak) and material from two sites in Armenia: the fourth millennium site ofAparan III and the third millennium site ofKar-nut I. Petrographic and chaine operatoire analysis suggests that all three industries are entirely local and share a series ofcharacte…
ArAgats PROJESİ
Since 1998, Project ArAGATS has conducted systematic investigations of the archaeological landscape of the Tsaghkahovit Plain in central Armenia. This contribution surveys the primary findings for three eras of extensive occupation of the region: the Early Bronze Age, the Late Bronze Age, and the Iron 3 (Achaemenid) period. Of particular importance to the wider archaeology of the South Caucasus are the new insights that this work has provided int…
New data on the periodization and chronology of the Kura-Araxes culture in Armenia
This article discusses the following issues : The Kura-Araxes sequence was of discrete character ; its periodization can be dated in-between 3600/ 3500-2900 (KA I) and 2900-2600/ 2500 (KA II) BC. The discreteness of the Kura-Araxes phenomenon is refl ected in the largely single-layered character of both early (KA I) and late (KA II) settlements : a destructive layer demonstrates the discontinuity of certain multi-layered (KA I-II) settlements. Th…
Wood resource management based on charcoals from the Bronze Age site of Gegharot (central Armenia)
A new chronological model for the Bronze and Iron Age South Caucasus
Project ArAgats 1998-2018
The year 2018 marked the 20th anniversary of the joint Armenian-American Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies, a collaboration more parsimoniously known as Project ArAGATS. The project was originally conceived as an effort to define long-term processes of social, economic, and political change in the South Caucasus across the Bronze and Iron Ages at a regional scale. In addition to introducing methods of i…
Ancient Armenia at the crossroads
Dietary practices, cultural and social identity in the Early Bronze Age southern Caucasus
Food and its interactions with the environmental, economic, social, and cultural spheres play an essential role in communities’ cultural identity. This theory has been verified by an analysis of the Kura-Araxes (KA) culture, characterised by original cultural developments, which spread in the South Caucasus around the middle of the fourth millennium BC. This research aims to study the variability of dietary choices at the individual and populatio…
The Neolithic Settlement of Aknashen (Ararat valley, Armenia)
International audience
Neolithic Settlement of Aknashen
Neolithic bone tools from Aknashen
The Project ArAgats Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey, Armenia
During four field seasons spanning 2014 through 2017, Project ArAGATS (Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies) expanded our long-term research on the origins and development of complex political systems in the South Caucasus with a comprehensive study of the upper Kasakh River valley in north-central Armenia. The Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey employed both systematic transect survey of 43 km2 and extensive satellite- …
Origins, endings and temporal pluralities
The Kura-Araxes culture spread over a large area of South-west Asia, participating in the transformational dynamics of Early Bronze Age societies in the region. Yet, the absence of a robust chronological framework for this cultural horizon hinders its integration into wider regional and interregional models. Drawing on a substantial new radiocarbon dataset, collating novel Bayesian chronological models for eight sites and existing data from the w…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Ancient Near East History (9 works) · History (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Bronze Age (7 works) · Bronze (6 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (5 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (4 works)