The Vorotan Project: New Archaeological Fieldwork in Southern Armenia
dnorris10 November 22nd, 2005
John Cherry, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan, will present “The Vorotan Project: New Archaeological Fieldwork in Southern Armenia”, on Wednesday, November 16 at The College of Wooster. Cherry’s illustrated lecture, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in Lean Lecture Room of Wishart Hall located at 303 E. University St.
The involvement of western scholars in archaeological research in the southern Caucasus is beginning to flourish in the post-Soviet era. Prof. Cherry will present a brief overview of the current state of archaeology in Armenia, before focusing on new Armenian-American collaborative fieldwork that began in 2005. The Vorotan Project is using a variety of techniques (excavation, intensive and extensive survey, use of space imagery, GIS, etc.) to explore long-term settlement and interaction in southern Armenia, with a special emphasis on the Yervandid period of the mid-first millennium B.C.