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Gegharot

Also known as: Gegharot fortress

A Late Bronze Age fortified site with excavated shrine rooms and administrative or ritual assemblages.

Evidence confidence: high
Awaiting expert reviewSouthern Russia and South Caucasus research expansion
Review and provenance

Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.

Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.

Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.

Chronology

Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.

Research description

The sanctuary interpretation is context-based and does not identify a named polity, ruler, or language community.

Properties and assignments

A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.

Fortified highland centre
What does this label mean?

A settlement with defensible elevated position and substantial fortification evidence.

Full property definition

Why does this record have this property?

Excavation or project evidence supports a defensible elevated centre. The property does not establish a capital, fixed frontier, or centralized territorial state.

highStatus: proposed

Evidence and sources

  • supports · provides site or sequence evidence
    Divination and Sovereignty: The Late Bronze Age Shrines at Gegharot, Armenia — Adam T. Smith, Jeffrey F. Leon (2014)

    Source linked to entity record site_srsc1_gegharot.


    Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record
  • supports · provides site or sequence evidence
    Gegharot — Project ArAGATS

    Source linked to entity record site_srsc1_gegharot.


    Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record

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