GRANTS AWARDED
 
 
 
 
Grant #2004-RC-001
Grantee: Dr. Mkrtich H. Zardaryan
Award: $2,063
To attend the joint annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association in January, 2005.
 
Grant #2004-RC-002
Grantee: Dr. Armen V. Tonikyan
Award:$2,400
To attend the joint annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association in January, 2005.
 
Grant #2005-RC-001
Grantee: Dr. Felix Ter-Martirosov
Award: $5,000
To conduct archaeological excavations at Erebuni Fortress.
 
Grant #2005-RC-003
Grantee: Professor Dr. Hayk Avetisyan
Award: $5,000
To modernize and upgrade equipment of the archaeological laboratory of Yerevan State University.
 
Grant #2005-RC-004
Grantee: Dr. Ruben S. Badalyan
Award: $4,920
To conduct archaeological excavations at the Neolithic site of Aratashen.
 
Grant #2005-RC-005
Grantee: Dr. Larisa Yengayan
Award: $3,200
To conduct archaeological excavations at a newly discovered Early Bronze Age site in northern Armenia.
 
Grant #2006-RC-002
Grantee: Professor Dr. Aram A. Kalantaryan
Award: $5,350
To modernize the library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography
 
Grant #2006-TP-001
Grantee: Dr. Aram Kossyan and Dr. Yervand Grekyan
Award: $16,000
To create and publish the journal, Aramazd:  Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies.
 
Grant #2006-TP-003
Grantee: Dr. Hamlet L. Petrosyan
Award: $5,500
To research and write a book on the khachkars of Karabagh.
 
Grant #2006-RC-003
Grantee: Dr. Larisa Yengayan
Award: $4,000
To conduct archaeological excavations at the Early Bronze Age site of Mets Sepasar in northern Armenia.
 
Grant #2006-RC-007
Grantee: Dr. Inesa Karapetyan
Award: $4,955
To investigate the ritual significance of the site of Armavir from the end of the 4th millennium BC to the end of the 1st millennium BC.
 
Grant #2006-RC-005
Grantee: Dr. Husik Melkonyan
Award: $5,920
To investigate a complex of monuments located in the Vayotz Dzor Marz of Armenia, probably dating to the 8th - 5th centuries BC.
 
Grant #2006-TP-005
Grantee: Professor Dr. Aram Kalantaryan
Award: $6,550
To publish the results of the 1981-1985 archaeological excavations in Dvin, a medieval capital of Armenia.  The volume will constitute a continuation of the material published in the previous three volumes of the series "Dvin City and its Excavations", relating to the materials uncovered in excavations from 1937-1980.
 
 Grant #2006-RC-011
Grantee: Dr. Lavrenti Barseghyan
Award: $5,500
To prepare a digital catalogue of the more than 7,000 archaeological artifacts in the National Ethnographic Museum of Armenia in Sardarabat.
 
 Grant #2006-SP-002
Grantee: History Museum of Yerevan
Award: $2,500
To prepare a catalogue of the Museum's archaeological artifacts.
 
  Grant #2006-RC-009
Grantee: Dr. Hamazasp Khachatrian
Award: $7,175
To conduct archaeological research at the site of Haikadzor, a suburb of the medieval city of Ani.
  Grant #2006-RC-013
Grantee: Dr. Hayk G. Avetisyan
Award: $25,000
To renovate and equip a research and conservation laboratory at Yerevan State University.
 
  Grant #2006-RC-012
Grantee: Dr. Simon Hmayakyan and Dr. Gregory E. Areshian
Award: $25,000
To assess and document the most endangered archaeological sites and cultural monuments in Armenia and Karabagh.
 
Grant #2007-ASP-01
Grantee: Diana Mirijanyan
Award: $10,000
To spend one academic term at the University of Chicago and to participate in the Project ArAGATS fieldwork at Gegharot and Tsaghkahovit in Armenia.
 
Grant #2007-CT-002
Grantee: Dr. Khachatur Meliksetian
Award: $2,089
To attend the second international conference, "Archaeometallurgy in Europe", in Italy in June, 2007.
 
Grant #2007-TP-001
Grantee: Armine Hayrapetyan
Award: $15,000
To create an online magazine of Armenian archaeology.
 
Grant #2007-TP-004
Grantee: Dr. Armen Petrosyan
Award: $6,300
To research and publish a book on the origins of the Armenian people.
 
Grant #2007-RC-004
Grantee: Armine Haratyunyan
Award: $4,950
To study and classify the ceramics of Armenia from the Neolithic to the Chalcolithic Ages.
 
Grant #2008-CT-01
Grantee: Diana Zardaryan
Award: $2,345
To attend the Third University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology ("Regimes and Revolution:  Power, Violence and Labor in Eurasia Between the Ancient and the Modern"), and to present a paper entitled "On the Origins of Complex Societies in the Southern Caucasus" by interpretation of the pottery discovered at the site of Areni-1.
 
Grant #2008-CT-02
Grantee: Dr. Khachatur Meliksetian
Award: $2,488
To attend the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry in Siena, Italy from May 12 - 16, 2008, and to present a paper entitled "Trace Element and Lead Isotope Composition of Some Armenian Neolithic and Eneolithic Copper Objects".
 
Grant 2008-RC-01
Grantee: Dr. Khachatur Meliksetian
Award: $4,210
To conduct analyses at the Curt-Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry in Mannheim, Germany.

Grant #2008-RC-02
Grantee: Dr. Hamazasp Khachatrian
Award: $9,495
To conduct archaeological research at the site of Haikadzor, a suburb of the medieval city of Ani.
Grant #2008-RC-04
Grantee: Iren Kalantaryan
Award: $4,813
To conduct archaeological excavations at the medieval capital of Dvin in Armenia.

Grant #2009-RC-01
Grantee: Dr. Hamazasp Khachatrian
Award: $9,495
To conduct archaeological research at the site of Haikadzor, a suburb of the medieval city of Ani.
Grant #2009-RC-02
Grantee: Inessa Hovsepian
Award: $1,200
To attend a one-month internship course at the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia. 
 
Grant #2009-RC-03
Grantee: Roman Hovsepyan
Award: $3,150
To create a comparative carpological collection for archaeobotanical studies at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, NAS RA. 
Grant #2009-TP-01
Grantee: Dr. Ruben S. Badalyan
Award: $7,000
To create a corpus of Kura-Araxes sites in Armenia. 
Grant #2009-SP-01
Grantee: Dr. Aram Kosyan, Dr. Armen Petrosyan, Yervand Grekyan
Award: $5,500
To sponsor an international conference entitled "Urartu and its Neighbors" in Yerevan, Armenia, in honor of the 90th birthday of Armenia's leading scholar on Urartu, Dr. Nikolay Harutyunyan.