Project ArAGATS is committed to bringing the archaeology of Armenia and the South Caucasus to the classroom and the public at large.
The ArAGATS scholars program was developed in order to help nurture young archaeologists in Armenia. Offered in association with Project Discovery!, ArAGATS scholarships allow one graduate student from Armenia to spend 10 weeks in Chicago working with the ArAGATS team.
The first ArAGATS scholarship has been awarded to Diana Mirijanyan who will visit Chicago in the spring of 2008. Ms. Mirijanyan's work focuses on the Medieval period.
For information on past and upcoming courses by A. T. Smith, click here.
March 29, 2008. Ian Lindsay will present a paper entitled "Fuzzy Borders?: Investigating Political Boundary Formation among South Caucasian LBA Fortress Polities" at the Society for American Archaeology Meetings in Vancouver.
March 28, 2008. Maureen Marshall and Alan Greene will present a paper entitled "Catacomb Queries: The Social Dynamics of Late Bronze Age Burial Practices, Artik, Armenia" at the Society for American Archaeology Meetings in Vancouver.
March 20, 2008. AT. Smith "Prometheus Unbound: Geographies of Transgression and Archaeologies of Authority in the Bronze Age Caucasus". University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Anthropology Colloquium.
Jan. 29, 2008. AT Smith. "Unearthing Citizens, Consuming (Pre)history: Archaeology from the National to the Neoliberal in Modern Armenia" Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.
April 8, 2008. AT Smith. Title TBA. School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) at the University of Liverpool.
May 1-3, 2008. The Third University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology will be held at the Oriental Institute. The conference will include multiple presentations on the ongoing work of Project ArAGATS by: Alan Greene, Lori Khatchadourian, Ian Lindsay, Maureen Marshall, Belinda Monahan, and Adam Smith.