Gregory E. Areshian received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Saint-Petersburg Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His dissertation was devoted to the study of the social context of the emergence of ironwork in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. He participated in several archaeological field projects in the Caucasus and on the northern coast of the Black Sea and directed the excavations at the settlements of Mokhrablur (Early Bronze Age) and Shamiram (Early Iron Age and Hellenistic Period) in Armenia, as well as he excavated several cemeteries belonging to the Middle Bronze Age pastoralist population. He is the author of more than 120 publications mostly concerning Caucasian and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and also archaeological theory. He co-authored a book devoted to the Pre-Christian architecture of Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, and co-edited a collection of papers on interdisciplinary studies of ethno-cultural history. During the second half of 1970s and 1980s Dr. Areshian served as Professor of Archaeology at the University of Yerevan (Armenia) and as Associate Director of the Institute of Archaeology of Armenia. In 1993 he served as Visiting Professor at UCLA, and subsequently, at the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Chicago. Currently he is a Research Associate at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA participating in the Mozan-Urkesh Project in Syria. Another substantial part of his current research is devoted to the interdisciplinary (archaeological-linguistic-art historical) reconstruction of Indo-European mythology.