entity · site_srsc1_tsaghkahovit_fortress
Tsaghkahovit fortress
Also known as: Tsaghkahovit
A large Late Bronze Age fortified complex on the Tsaghkahovit Plain with citadel, enclosure, and associated settlement evidence.
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.
1500 BCE–1200 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides site or sequence evidence
Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2002 Investigations by Project ArAGATS on the Tsakahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia — Adam T. Smith, Ruben S. Badalyan, Pavel Avetisyan, Mkrtich Zardaryan, Armine Hayrapetyan, Leah Minc, Belinda Monahan (2004)
Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record - informs · provides site or sequence evidence
Tsaghkahovit Fortress — Project ArAGATS
Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record - informs · provides site or sequence evidence
Tsaghkahovit Township — American University of Armenia, Acopian Center for the Environment
Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record
Research description
The walls and site hierarchy support a fortified centre, but do not independently prove a centralized kingdom or fixed territory.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Fortified highland centre
A settlement with defensible elevated position and substantial fortification evidence.
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.
- Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2002 Investigations by Project ArAGATS on the Tsakahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia
supports assignment · Fortification and settlement context - Tsaghkahovit Fortress
supports assignment · Fortification and settlement context
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides site or sequence evidence
Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2002 Investigations by Project ArAGATS on the Tsakahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia — Adam T. Smith, Ruben S. Badalyan, Pavel Avetisyan, Mkrtich Zardaryan, Armine Hayrapetyan, Leah Minc, Belinda Monahan (2004)Source linked to entity record site_srsc1_tsaghkahovit_fortress.
Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record - supports · provides site or sequence evidence
Tsaghkahovit Fortress — Project ArAGATSSource linked to entity record site_srsc1_tsaghkahovit_fortress.
Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record - supports · provides site or sequence evidence
Tsaghkahovit Township — American University of Armenia, Acopian Center for the EnvironmentSource linked to entity record site_srsc1_tsaghkahovit_fortress.
Locator: Relevant site report, synthesis, or gazetteer record
Referenced records
- Armenian Highland and Lake Sevan basins · entity
- Geography assertion for site_srsc1_tsaghkahovit_fortress · geography assertion