Hamlet Petrosyan (Armenian: Համլետ Պետրոսյան; born 1955)[1] is an Armenian historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist.

Biography

Petrosyan was born in 1955 in the village of Khnatsakh in what was then Askeran district of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.[1] He graduated from the Department of Archaeology of Yerevan State University (YSU) and completed his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Armenian SSR.[1][2]

Petrosyan started his career at Armenia's State Museum of Ethnography as chief of the Paleoanthropology Department. Since 1981, he has been a senior research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Armenia's Academy of Sciences. Petrosyan was a visiting professor on archaeology and anthropology at his alma mater, YSU, between 1992 and 2006. In 2007 he was named Chair of Cultural Studies at YSU.[1]

Petrosyan has led excavations in Shushi, Handaberd, and most notably, the ancient site of Tigranakert in Artsakh.[1][3][4] He has described Tigranakert as “the best-preserved city of the Hellenistic and Armenian civilizations.”[5]

Publications

Patrosyan's English publications include:[6]

  • Petrosyan H., Kalantaryan A., Karakhanyan G., Melkonyan H., Armenia in the Cultural Context of East and West. Ceramics and Glass (4th - 14th centuries), Yerevan, 2009
  • Petrosyan H., Khachkar: the Origin, Functions, Iconography and Semantics, 2010
  • H. L. Petrosyan, N. Sweezy, Armenian Folk Arts, Culture and Identity, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana Univ. Press, 2001, p. 3-22

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Hamlet Petrosyan". boghossianprize.am. Boghossian Prize. Archived from the original on 23 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "Hamlet L. Petrosyan". ysu.am. Yerevan State University. Archived from the original on 10 June 2022.
  3. ↑ Mkrtchyan, Gayane (18 January 2021). "Fears for Armenian Cultural Heritage in Karabakh". Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
  4. ↑ Maghakyan, Simon (October 3, 2020). "Archeologist Raises Alarms Over Azerbaijan's Shelling of an Ancient City". Hyperallergic.
  5. ↑ Miranda, Carolina A. (December 16, 2020). "Armenian monuments are at risk in Azerbaijan. L.A. artists make their own to keep memory alive". Los Angeles Times.
  6. ↑ "Համլետ Լենսերի Պետրոսյան [Hamlet Lenseri Petrosyan]" (in Armenian). Yerevan State University. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020.
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