Boris Gasparyan

Boris Gasparyan - since 1992, is a researcher at Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and is an Assistant Professor in the Department Archaeology and Ethnography at Yerevan State University. Since 2000 he directed and co-directed many international joint archaeological missions in Armenia. He is an author of around 180 scientific publications regarding different aspects of Archaeology of Armenia and Near East.

One of the well-known projects led by Gasparyan is the Areni-1 cave, were the worlds’ oldest shoe and wine producing facility were discovered. Among the achievements are the excavations of the Lower Paleolithic site of Haghtanak-3 in the Debed River valley, series of important Middle Paleolithic sites (Hovk-1, Barozh-12, etc.), the Upper Paleolithic sites of Aghitu-3 cave and Kalavan-1 open-air site and others. Gasparyan also contributed to the study of the Neolithic-Chalcolithic, Bronze-Iron Ages, Classical Period and Medieval monuments of Armenia.