April 11, 2008. Maureen Marshall has received a Fulbright award to support her dissertation fieldwork at a Late Bronze Age burial cluster in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia. Her bioarchaeological research will examine Late Bronze Age transformations in the region as seen through the mortuary rituals and bodily remains preserved in the region's cemeteries.
April 11, 2008. Alan Greene (see below) has also received a Fulbright award to support his dissertation fieldwork at the site of Aragatsiberd in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia.
March 11, 2008. Alan Greene (Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago) has received a National Science Foundation doctoral dissertation improvement grant in support of his investigation of how craft manufacturing articulated with political centralization during the Late Bronze Age in the Tsaghkahovit Plain.
January 18, 2008: Bronze and Early Iron Age Archaeological Sites in Armenia, I: Mt. Aragats and its Surrounding Region has just been published by Project ArAGATS co-director Ruben Badalyan and Pavel Avetisyan.
January 3, 2008. Lori Khatchadourian presented a paper based on her work in the lower town of Tsaghkahovit at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meetings in Chicago. The paper was entitled: "Beyond Empire and Dynasty: The Political and Social Landscapes of the Armenian Highlands, 600-300 B.C."
December 10, 2007. Diana Mirijanyan, of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan, has been selected as the first ArAGATS scholar. Ms. Mirijanyan will spend 10 weeks at the University of Chicago working and studying with the ArAGATS team.
October 25, 2007. The monograph report on the Project ArAGATS survey is now in press at the Oriental Institute Press. It is entitled The Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Trasncaucasian Societies, Volume I: Regional Investigations in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia. We anticipate publication in January 2008.
August 2007. Team member Dr. Ian Lindsay has joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Purdue University.