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The high-altitude site of Karmir Sar is located around 2850 m a.s.l. on the southern slopes of Mt. Aragats (Armenia). Numerous stone structures (including vishaps, cromlechs, stone enclosures) are found all over the 40 ha-sized meadow, out of which three vishaps, four cromlechs and one circular stone structure have been investigated since 2012. According to 14C-dates, pottery and diagnostic lithic artefacts, human presence at Karmir Sar started as early as the Chalcolithic Period and continued (with gaps) until modern times; whereby the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) and the Medieval era represent the most intensive periods of occupation.
This contribution presents primary data on the typology and technology of 1129 chipped lithic artefacts that have been excavated in four trenches at Karmir Sar (operations KS A, KS C, KS D, and KS E). This study of the lithic industries of Karmir Sar will be embedded within the framework of lithic economy, which considers lithic artefacts as part of a comprehensive interaction between lithic production and consumption. The lithic economy includes strategies of raw material procurement, blanks production and its transformation into tools, tool use, as well as the circulation of raw materials or products. Due to multiple use episodes and a general lack of clear stratigraphical horizons, the assemblages of Karmir Sar are not suitable to define the lithic industry for specific periods (such as the Chalcolithic or MBA periods). However, the data allows for general conclusions on lithic production and consumption at Karmir Sar, which appears to be quite similar during both periods.
The Chalcolithic and MBA lithic economies at Karmir Sar are characterized by an ad hoc tool production environment, which well matches the needs of semi-mobile herder societies. The majority of raw materials appear to be procured from secondary source areas (such as riverbeds) which is indicated by a high ratio of battered and rolled surfaces. Tools are predominantly produced on-site, and according to daily demands by simple flake core technology. This allowed for a flexible, spontaneous blank and tool production without being dependent on specialized blade producers.

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Chalcolithic and Middle Bronze Age obsidian industries at Karmir Sar: A mountain view on the lithic economies of the Southern Caucasus

1 Centre national de la recherche scientifi que Archéorient (UMR 5133), Lyon 2 Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia 3 Ministry of Culture and Communication, DRAC Picardie, Amiens 4 National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo 5 Municipal Service for Archaeology of the City of Lyon 6 Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives, Toulouse 7 Institute of Geological Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia 8 Centre national de la recherche scientifi que IFEA (USR 3131), Istanbul 9 Department of Cartography and Geomorphology, State University of Yerevan 10 National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest

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From the Late Upper Paleolithic to the Neolithic in north-western Armenia: Preliminary results

Forest Exploitation during the Holocene in the Aghstev valley, Northeast Armenia