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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">nsc</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Archaeology, Ethnology &amp; Anthropology of Eurasia</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1563-0110</issn><publisher><publisher-name>IAET SB RAS</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.2.043-052</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">nsc-1225</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ЭПОХА ПАЛЕОМЕТАЛЛА</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>An Early Bronze Age Hoard of Bronze Tools from Dvin, Central Armenia</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Gasparyan</surname><given-names>B.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Charentsa 15, Yerevan, 0025</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">borisg@virtualarmenia.am</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Korenevskiy</surname><given-names>S. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Dm. Ulyanova 19, Moscow, 117292</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">Skorenevskiy@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia</institution><country>Armenia</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2021</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>05</day><month>07</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>49</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>43</fpage><lpage>52</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Gasparyan B., Korenevskiy S.N., 2021</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Gasparyan B., Korenevskiy S.N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Gasparyan B., Korenevskiy S.N.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1225">https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1225</self-uri><abstract><p>We describe a hoard found in 2018 on a hilltop near the village of Dvin, Armenia, and comprising seven daggers and six adzes. Similar pickaxes and adzes were found in caches at Dzhrashen, Yerevan, and at Nahal-Mishmar, Israel. A peculiar feature of the Dvin adzes is that their blades are sharply rounded, resembling those of the Bronze Age battle axes. All the Dvin daggers belong to a single type, similar to tangless daggers of the Maikop culture, but more robust. Results of an X-ray diffraction analysis show that the Yerevan, as well as the Dvin, specimens are made of arsenic bronze, whose source is hard to determine. Judging by the typology and the presence of blanks, the Dvin hoard indicates local metalworking, a production of artisans working in the southern part of the Alaverdy mining area. According to GPS, the direct distance between the Dvin and Yerevan hoards is just 13 km. Both locations apparently belonged to one and the same metalworking region in Armenia, and both hoards date to the late 5th to early 4th millennia BC.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Armenia</kwd><kwd>hoard</kwd><kwd>dagger</kwd><kwd>adze</kwd><kwd>axe</kwd><kwd>dating</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The authors express their deep gratitude to I. Gambashidze for reporting the radiocarbon date of the casting mold from Dzedzvebi.  S.N. Korenevskiy carried out the work under the Public Contract AAAA-A18-118011790090-1.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Areshian G. 2007 From extended families to incipient polities: The trajectory of social complexity in the Early Bronze Age of the Ararat Plain (Central Near Eastern Highlands). In Social Orders and Social Landscapes, L.M. Popova, Ch.W. Hartly, A.T. 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