Shengavit Ancient Settlement
Bronze Age settlement with black burnished pottery, ritual figurines and stone foundations.
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This guide to the Shengavit Ancient Settlement in Yerevan traces a five-thousand-year-old Bronze Age workshop so distinctive that archaeologists named an entire culture after it, one that spread from here into Georgia and beyond. It follows the excavations of Yevgeni Bayburdian in the 1930s and Sandro Sardarian's decades of digging from 1958 onward, and the black burnished pottery, coiled and shaped entirely by hand before any potter's wheel existed. Beneath the floors sat a large stone carved into a striking shape over two meters tall, alongside dozens of small clay figurines.
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