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JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
Volume 65, Issue 5, Pages 621-640Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.07.011
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Lesser Caucasus; Armenia; Upper Paleolithic; Epigravettian; Lithic; Fauna
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- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Armenian branch of the Gfoeller Foundation
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The open-air site of Kalavan 1 is located in the Aregunyats mountain chain (at 1640 m above sea level) on the northern bank of Lake Sevan. It is the first Upper Palaeolithic site excavated in Armenia. Led by an Armenian-French team, several excavations (2005-2009) have revealed a well preserved palaeosoil, dated to around 14,000 BP (years before present), containing fauna, lithic artefacts, as well as several hearths and activity areas that structure the settlement. The initial studies enable placement of the site in its environment and justify palaeoethnological analysis of the Epigravettian human groups of the Lesser Caucasus. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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