Metsamor (Armenia) after five seasons of excavations

Abstract

The Metsamor site in the 2017 season was excavated in two areas. The main area was the so-called town area whereseveral dwellings from the Early Iron Age were cleared. Evidence of violent site destruction included two human skeletons belonging most probably to victims of a sudden attack, left unburied after the town had been destroyed. The cemetery was the second investigated area. Exploration of kurgan XIX demonstrated that it had been looted. Nevertheless, some human remains and several artifacts in the form of bronze snake head bracelets were recorded inside the burial chamber.

Keywords

• Early Iron Age
• dwelling structures
• graves
• storage jars
• stamp seal
• Urartian fibula