Andarnik Gyonjyan

Andarnik Gyonjyan graduated from the Ar as a veterinarian. He started his scientific career at the Laboratory of Zoology of Vertebrates at the Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology of NAS Armenia in 2008. Since 2008, he studies animal bone remains from burials and archaeological monuments from the Bronze and Iron ages. Currently, he is a researcher at the Laboratory of Zoology of Vertebrates, finishing his PhD research themed “Hunting and animal husbandry in the Bronze and Iron Ages in North-western Armenia”. Moreover, Andarnik is involved and actively works with mammal species in Armenia, studying their ecology and comparatively analyzing their distribution data with the findings from the archaeological sites. 

Research interests: Zooarcheology, Zoology, Mammology, Archaeology, Zoogeography, Paleoanthalogy, Paleology. 

TransCause project: As an Armenian team member, Andranik conducts the collecting of raw materials as one of the aspects of a comparative study of biological evolution.