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PALEODEMOGRAPHY OF ARMENIA’S POPULATION IN LATE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES (THE MONUMENTS OF THE LORI PROVINCE CASE STUDY)

General history , UDC: 572.087 DOI: 10.25688/20-76-9105.2024.54.2.09

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  • Khudaverdyan Anahit Yu. Candidate of Historical Sciences

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The paper provides information about the gender and age of the dead from 3 necropolises in one local region of Armenia — Lori. The groups used for analysis included the skeletal remains of 134 individuals. All three necropolises yielded different results in terms of life expectancy, infant mortality, and mortality peaks. They differ in the percentage of men and women and the representativeness of the final age cohort. The similarity is only in the general trend — the low mortality of children and the survival rate of men to old age. Burial grounds have good values: high mean age at death and mean age at death excluding children. The сross-group analysis was carried out using the method of principal components of multivariate statistics. The earlier samples of the Khvalyn and Cucuteni – Trypillia cultures are closest to the series from Lori Province.
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age cohort , archaeology , Armenia , average life expectancy , infant mortality rate , Late Bronze and Early Iron ages , necropolis , paleodemography , peak mortality

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Khudaverdyan, A. Y. (2024). PALEODEMOGRAPHY OF ARMENIA’S POPULATION IN LATE BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGES (THE MONUMENTS OF THE LORI PROVINCE CASE STUDY) Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", № 2 (54), 125. https://doi.org/10.25688/20-76-9105.2024.54.2.09
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