The excavation database can be found here. Guests have access to a read-only "sandbox" version. Full access to the database is password protected.
Project ArAGATS's investigations in the Tsaghkahovit Plain began in 1998 when we initiated a systematic intensive survey that ultimately covered 98.31km2 of the mountain slopes surrounding the plain. The full results of this work are currently forthcoming from the Oriental Institute Press. Here, users can query the place index that resulted from the survey using searches on four data fields.
Period describes the assigned chronological era of construction and occupation based on surface indications and, where available, subsurface explorations. The database uses the following period designations:
Early Bronze Age=EB
Middle Bronze Age=MB
Late Bronze Age=LB
Iron Age=I
Medieval=Mv
Modern=Mo
Sub-phases are designated numerically (1, 2, 3 etc.)
Site Type describes the conventional designation adopted to differentate the different kinds of places encountered on survey. These include:
Artifact Scatter
Burial Cluster
Canal
Canal Trace
Corral
Fortress
Reservoir
Settlement
Stela
Site Numbers provide the basic identification nomenclature for the study. We employed a basic concatenated system of site numbering in which the first letter identifies the survey region, followed by a two letter quadrant abbreviation, followed by the number of the initial transect that located the site and finally the site number on that transect. Thus site number T.Ge.25.05 defines the fifth site located on transect 25 in the Gegharot quadrant within the Tsaghkahovit plain survey. The quadrant abbreviations employed are as follows:
Ap=Aparan quadrant
Ge=Gegharot quadrant I
Gk=Gegharot kurgan quadrant
Hn= Hnaberd quadrant
Ko=Kolgat quadrant
Ma=Mantash quadrant
Sa= Sahakaberd quadrant
Ts=Tsaghkahovit quadrant
Vb=Vardablur quadrant
The Site Description field provides for wild card searches of terms used in the textual descriptions of the sites. These might include a search for all burial clusters that included "kurgan" style mortuary remains or fortresses with "cyclopean" architecture.