Armine Hayrapetyan is a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan. She has been a member of Project ArAGATS since 2000, conducting dissertation research on the Early Bronze Age of Gegharot in 2003 funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In addition to writing her dissertation, Ms. Hayrapetyan has participated in excavations at a wide range of sites, from Noelithic Aratashen to Iron Age Beniamin, and most recently supervised the excavation of the multi-component site of Tagavoranist, in the city of Vanadzor.