Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Time Event  
09:30 - 10:00 Holocene volcanism and human occupation in Armenia: new data - Kh. Meliksetian, A. Karakhanyan, R. Badalyan, I. Neill, A. Avagyan, A. Harutyunyan, Kh. Makaryan, S. Balasanyan, G. Navasardyan, D. Miggins, A. Koopers  
10:00 - 10:30 Volcanic eruptions witnessed by prehistoric people in Armenia - A. Avagyan1, J.-F. Ritz, P.-H. Blard, K. Meliksetian, P. Munch, P. Valla, K.S. Tokhatyan, M. Mkrtchyan, T. Atalyan  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:30 Archaeoseismological studies of the eastern branch of the Syunik pull-apart basin structure - S. Balasanyan, A. Karakhanyan, Kh. Meliksetian  
11:30 - 12:00 Analysis of soil liquefaction effect: new evidence on the seismic activity of the Syunik highland (Armenia) - Kh. Makaryan, A. Karakhanyan, S. Balasanyan  
12:00 - 12:30 Multiple Holocene morphoclimatic factors and their impact on the landscapes and societies of the Lesser Caucasus - V. Ollivier, M. Fontugne  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:30 Climate of Abandonment: contextualizing environmental change and abandonment events during the Early Bronze and Late Iron Age on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia - A. Cromartie, S. Joannin, C. Blanchet, C. Barhoumi  
14:30 - 15:00 Upper Holocene vegetation history from the Kalavan Red Lake in Armenia. - S. Joannin, V. Ollivier, O. Bellier, P. Tozalakian, A. Karakhanyan, B. Perello  
15:00 - 15:30 The Early Holocene in Armenia and in Georgia: climate, vegetation and Neolithic expansion - E. Messager, C. Hamon, S. Joannin, B. Lyonnet, C. Leroyer, R. Badalyan, V. Ollivier, C. Chataigner, M. Jalabadze  
15:30 - 16:00 Environmental pressures in prehistory and variability of animal and botanical stable isotope ratios (6th - mid-4th millennium BC, Armenia) - E. Herrscher, R. Hovsepyan, A. Balasescu  
16:00 - 16:30 Seeds from vishap contexts: Archaeobotanical finds from the high-mountain site of Karmir Sar (Mt. Aragats, Armenia) - R. Hovsepyan  
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break  
17:00 - 17:30 Preliminary results on Paleolithic through Bronze Age settlement patterns from ArAGATS’ Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey (KVAS) Project (2015-17) - A. F. Greene, K. Azatyan, I. Lindsay, A. Mkrtchyan  
17:30 - 18:00 The macrolithic tools from Akhnashen: cultural links and economy of a Neolithic site in the Arax Basin (South Caucasus) - C. Hamon  
18:00 - 18:30 The problem of the cultural and chronological attribution of the upper horizon at Aknashen - A. Harutyunyan, K. Azatyan, R. Badalyan  
18:30 - 19:00 Geographical proximity and material culture: the interplay between Iran and Armenia in the 6th to the 3rd millennium BC - S. Maziar  

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:30 Lithic technology from the chalcolithic layers of Getahovit 2 - N. Tardy, B. Gratuze, I. Kalantaryan, B. Perello  
09:30 - 10:00 Desert kites and agglomerated cells of the Mount Aragats: Spatial Coincidences? - O. Barge, E. Régagnon, I. Kalantaryan, B. Perello  
10:00 - 10:30 How old are they? An up-to-date synthesis on the chronology of Mount Aragats’ kites in Armeni - J.É. Brochier, O. Barge, F. Magnin, R. Crassard  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:30 Aspects of funerary practices of the Kura-Araxes culture (based on Early Bronze Age sites in Armenia) - R. Badalyan  
11:30 - 12:00 Diachronic changes in human activities and diet in Armenia from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age: the contribution of anthropological data - M. Poulmarc’h, B. Chamel, G. Andre, P. Avetisyan, C. Chataigner, B. Gasparyan, L. Aghikyan, A. Harutyunyan, I. Kalantaryan, G. Palumbi, E. Herrscher, F. Le Mort  
12:00 - 12:30 New burial elements in Early Bronze of Armenia: the discovery of Karnut cemetery - L. Aghikyan  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:30 Toward the periodization and chronology of archeological cultures of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages in Armenia - P. Avetisyan  
14:30 - 15:00 Recent rock art research in Armenia: case studies from Aragats and Syunik regions - A. Khechoyan, A. Danielyan, T. Walkling, B. Gaspryan, D.Nadel  
15:00 - 15:30 The Church of the Transguration (Kumaraghan) in Garni: archeoseismology and transformation of this monumental building from Antiquity to the 19th century - B. Helly, A. Rideaud  
15:30 - 16:00 The research of the Franco-Armenian mission on the plain of Ararat and at Chirak: from Urartu to Achaemenid period in the first millennium B.C. - F. Fichet De Clairfontaine, S. Deschamps, M. Karapetian  
16:00 - 16:30 The French-Armenian archaeological mission of the LA3M (Aix-en-Provence) at Yereruyk (Armenia): main results - P. Donabedian  
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break  
17:00 - 17:30 Archaeological pottery as a source in the study of medieval landscape of the Silk Road: material recorded by the VayotsDzor Silk Road Survey - A. Babajanyan, K. Franklin  
17:30 - 18:00 Earthen construction and architecture in Armenia - S. Monnot  
18:00 - 18:30 Current pastoral practices in Armenia: mobility of men, mobility of animals and festive rituals - M. Thevenin  
18:30 - 20:00 Opening of the exhibition "Bergers et Bergères des montagnes d'Arménie" - "Bergers et Bergères des montagnes d'Arménie"