The desert kites and agglomerated cells of Mount Aragats: spatial coincidence?
Résumé
The structures called agglomerated cells were discovered during the fieldwork on desert kites conducted on the western slopes of Mount Aragats between 2011 and 2015, not surprising as the two types of construction share locations in the landscape and it has been discovered that their respective extension areas in Armenia are very similar. Moreover, although the questions concerning function may be only partially explained, it would appear that they imply animal management in both cases. Is it reasonable to advance the hypothesis of a coexistence of these two types of construction, and even of their functional complementarity? The chronology, which is difficult to establish in the case of the kites and still preliminary in that of the agglomerated cells, could support the possibility of contemporaneity. However, certain rare examples of superimposition tend to indicate the anteriority of the agglomerated cells.