ARCHAEOLOGISTS HOPE TO FIND TRACES OF PALEOLITE MAN’S ACTIVITIES IN RIVER
VOROTAN GORGE
YEREVAN, JULY 27. ARMINFO. July 28 An Armenian-French archaeological
group is to start examining the gorge of the river Vorotan, Sunik
region. They will study rocks where there may be the traces of the
activities of the paleolite man, says the director of the Archaeology
and Ethnography Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of
Armenia Aram Kalantaryan.
The project has been drafted by the Armenian side, the financing is
French. The laboratory research will be held in France where there is
all necessary equipment to determine their age. The findings will be
published in several languages.
Kalantaryan says that in the last decade the institute has cooperated
with many archaeological centers of the world – in France, Italy,
Germany, the US, Russia and Israel. Almost 1,000 books have been
published as a result of cooperation in archeology, anthropology,
paleography, sociology, ethnography and folklore.