Metsamor — an Ancient City of the Bronze and Iron Age on the Territory of Armenia

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The article presents the results of many years of excavations of the citadel, urban quarters and necropolis of the Bronze and Iron Age (second half of the 4th — first half of the 1st mil BC) archaeological site of Metsamor, located in the Ararat Valley of Armenia. The artifacts of this multi-layer monument are of certain importance for comprehensive reconstructions of the military-political, socio-economic and ethno-cultural processes that took place in the territory of Asia Minor, the Levant, the Iranian Plateau and the Armenian Highlands, especially in the middle and end of the 2nd mil BC, and make it possible to talk about a well-organized transit trade in strategic raw materials (tin, gold, copper, iron) and everyday goods throughout the Ancient Near East during this period.

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Ashot S. Piliposyan

Armenian State Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovyan (ASPU); «Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Cultural Museum-Reservations» NCSO of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Armenia; Historical-archaeological Museum-Reserve «Erebuni»

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Email: piliposyan@yahoo.com

Dr. Sci. (Hist.), Professor, Head of the Department of History of Armenia(ASPU), Chairman of the Scientific-Methodological Council Service for the Protection

Armenia, Yerevan;Yerevan; Yerevan

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