Spelunca Areni 1

Spelunca Areni 1, litteris Armenis Արենի-1, est series cavernarum prope oppidum Areni Armeniae latentium ubi archaeologi Armeni et Hiberni locum habitationis chalcolithicae et aetatis aëneae reppererunt, ad culturam Kura Araxes seu Transcaucasica matura attributum. Inter vestigia inventa sunt calceamenta (anni circiter 3 500 a.C.n.) et officina vinaria (circiter 4 000 a.C.n.) omnis terrarum orbis antiquissimae.

Ossa eiusdem fere aevi reperta sunt hominum (inter quos infantium iuvenumque) specierumque Capra aegagrus multa, Ovis aries pauca (quae animalia domesticata in caverna ipsa tenebantur), tardius Bos taurus, multo pauciora Vulpes vulpes, Canis lupus familiaris, Sus scrofa; fructus Juglans regia fructusque vel grana Prunus sp., Celtis sp., Cerasus incana, Daucus carota cf. carota, Vicia sp., Hordeum vulgare, Triticum cf. aestivum, Cucurbitaceae spp. seeds, Polygonum sp., Anchusa sp., Buglossoides sp., Aegilops sp., Vitis sp.

 Bibliographia 
 Hans Barnard, Alek N. Dooley, Gregory Areshian, Boris Gasparyan, Kym F. Faull, "Chemical evidence for wine production around 4000 BCE in the Late Chalcolithic Near Eastern highlands" in Journal of Archaeological Science vol. 38 (2011) pp. 977-984
 Marc Kaufman, "Ancient winemaking operation unearthed" in Washington Post (11 Ian. 2011)
 Thomas H. Maugh II, "Ancient winery found in Armenia" in Los Angeles Times (11 Ian. 2011)
 James Owen, "Earliest Known Winery Found in Armenian Cave" in National Geographic (10 Jan. 2011)
 Keith N. Wilkinson, Boris Gasparian, Ron Pinhasi, Pavel Avetisyan, Roman Hovsepyan, Diana Zardaryan, Gregory E. Areshian, Guy Bar-Oz, Alexia Smith, "Areni-1 Cave, Armenia: A Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age settlement and ritual site in the southern Caucasus" in Journal of Field Archaeology vol. 37 (2012) pp. 20-33

 Nexus externi 

Categoria:Loci archaeologici Armeniae
Categoria:Cavernae
Categoria:Loci habitati aetatis aëneae
Categoria:Archaeologia vini
Categoria:Archaeologia vestimentorum