Early Bronze Age burial mounds in Avan
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https://doi.org/10.32028/ajnes.v12i2.900Keywords:
Avan, Yerevan, Kura-AraxesAbstract
The necropolis is situated in the district of Avan built in the northeastern outskirts of Yerevan in 1970-80s. During the conservation works conducted there in 1987 a burial mound with the materials characteristic of the early stages of the Kura-Araxes culture was opened. In 2012 two other burial mounds of the Early Bronze Age has been unearthed in this necropolis.
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