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Lori Khatchadourian

Lori Khatchadourian

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Cornell University · Classics

Active 2005–2025

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About

Lori Khatchadourian is a professor associated with the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS) and is involved with the Landscapes and Objects Laboratory (LOL) at Cornell University. Her work focuses on the analysis and interpretation of archaeological materials, exploring the role of the material world—from landscapes and places to assemblages and artifacts—in human social life. Her research includes the use of advanced scientific techniques such as portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) to examine cultural heritage objects, including ancient coins, illuminated manuscripts, and paintings, to identify pigments, materials, and potential forgeries. She collaborates with graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other specialists to conduct these analyses, contributing to the understanding of historical artifacts and their provenance.

Research topics

  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Geography
  • Physical geography
  • Ecology
  • Aesthetics
  • Epistemology
  • Art
  • Virology
  • Philosophy
  • Law
  • History
  • Physics
  • Medicine
  • Archaeology
  • Mathematics
  • Biology

Selected publications

  • The Ruins We Live In

    Études arméniennes contemporaines · 2025-01-01

    articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

    Lori Khatchadourian is an archaeologist working at the intersection of methodological approaches emanating from social anthropology, critical heritage studies, and of course also archaeology. Geographically, her research has focused on Armenia and the South Caucasus. We sat down with Dr. Khatchadourian to discuss at length the role of material objects and the material world in her research, her ongoing interests in material culture and its impact on social life, as well as her public-facing, engaged research through the Caucasus Heritage Watch project. We talked about the excavation of (hidden or neglected) objects, the stories that can be told and the new inspirations that can be drawn from them. We also addressed the specific yet diverse ways in which the materiality of the past (be it Persian antiquity or socialist modernity) shapes contemporary political, economic, and ethical questions and relations, yet, at the same time, how being attentive to the present enables to grasp and to reconsider the remnants and debris of the past in novel ways.

  • Agro-pastoral landscape fire suppression in the steppes of the Bronze and Iron Age southern Caucasus.

    HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2024-08-28

    article

    International audience

  • Monitoring Heritage At Risk:

    Archaeopress Publishing Ltd eBooks · 2023-03-01 · 1 citations

    book-chapter
  • The Project ArAGATS Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey, Armenia: Report of the 2014–2017 Seasons

    American Journal of Archaeology · 2022-03-15 · 3 citations

    article

    During four field seasons spanning 2014 through 2017, Project ArAGATS (Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies) expanded our long-term research on the origins and development of complex political systems in the South Caucasus with a comprehensive study of the upper Kasakh River valley in north-central Armenia. The Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey employed both systematic transect survey of 43 km2 and extensive satellite- and drone-based reconnaissance to accommodate the complex topography of the Lesser Caucasus and the impacts of Soviet-era land amelioration. Though our survey was animated by questions related to the chronology and distribution of Bronze and Iron Age fortifications and cemeteries, we also recorded Paleolithic sites stretching back to the earliest human settlement of the Caucasus, Early Bronze Age surface finds, and historic landscape modifications. Concurrent to the survey, members of the ArAGATS team carried out test excavations at select settlement sites and associated burials, and a series of wetland core extractions, with the goals of affirming site occupation sequences and setting them within their environmental context. This report provides an overview of the results of these multidisciplinary activities.1

  • Life Extempore: Trials of Ruination in the Twilight Zone of Soviet Industry

    Cultural Anthropology · 2022 · 26 citations

    1st authorCorresponding
    • Sociology
    • Political Science
    • Sociology

    This essay attends to the temporal and material relations through which the former Soviet proletariat and former factory directors pull the remnants of the socialist factory into relations of capital. I introduce the concept of trials of ruination to refer to the struggles to discover value in old things, when the temporal and material logics of capital, and the waning life course of objects and humans, test the limits of those efforts. A life extempore is one in which the primary tactic for discovering value is perpetual extemporization, doing things one never planned or was trained to do. Life extempore alerts us to an orientation to time that is grounded firmly in the present, marked by a sense of urgency, requiring creativity and spontaneity, and existentially linked to a position of exteriority from dominant temporal ideologies of socialism and capitalism. This study focuses on the improvisational practices of two “extemporists”, and their efforts to revalue the persistent material world of Soviet industry. ԱՄՓՈՓՈՒՄ Հոդվածում քննարկվում են այն ժամանակային և նյութական առնչակցությունները, որոնց միջոցով նախկին խորհրդային պրոլետարիատը և գործարանների նախկին տնօրենները կապիտալի հարաբերությունների մեջ են ներքաշում սոցիալիստական գործարանի մնացորդները։ Ես առաջարկում եմ «փլատականացման փորձության» (“trials of ruination”) կոնցեպտը, որն անդրադառնում է հին իրերի մեջ արժեք գտնելու համար պայքարին, երբ կապիտալի ժամանակային և նյութական տրամաբանությունը, ինչպես նաև առարկաների և մարդկանց կրճատվող կենսընթացները փորձարկման են ենթարկում այդ ջանքերի սահմանները: «Extempore», այսինքն «հանպատրաստից” կյանքը այնպիսի մի վիճակ է, երբ արժեքի բացահայտման հիմնական մարտավարությունը հավերժական մի փորձարկում է, որի ընթացքում արվում են այնպիսի բաներ, որոնք երբեք չեն պլանավորվել կամ սովորական չեն համարվել։ «Extempore»-կյանքը ժամանակային առումով միշտ վերաբերում է ներկային, նշանավորված է հրատապության զգացմամբ, պահանջում է ստեղծագործականություն ու ինքնաբխություն և էքզիստենցիալ կերպով կապված է տարբեր ժամանակներում գերիշխող սոցիալիզմի և կապիտալիզմի գաղափարախոսություններից դուրս գտնվող դիրքավորման հետ։ Այս ուսումնասիրությունը անդրադառնում է «extempore» կյանքով ապրող երկու անհատների իմպրովիզացիոն պրակտիկաներին և խորհրդային արդյունաբերության դիմակայող նյութականությունը վերարժևորելու նրանց ջանքերին. РЕЗЮМЕ В этой статье анализируются временные и материальные отношения, посредством которых бывший советский пролетариат и бывшие директоры промышленных предприятий втягивают останки социалистических заводов и фабрик в отношения капитала. Я ввожу концепцию «испытания руинизацией», которая характеризует борьбу за обнаружение ценности старых вещей, в процессе которой временная и материальная логика капитала и сокращающиеся сроки жизни объектов и людей подвергают пределы этих усилий испытанию. Жизнь extempore, то есть экспромтом описывается как состояние, при котором основные тактики по обнаружению ценности представляют из себя непрерывный поиск и попытки делать вещи, которые никогда не делались раньше и никогда не были привычными. Жизнь extempore приводит нас к временной ориентации на настоящее, отмечена чувством срочности, требует изобретательности и спонтанности, а также в экзистенциальном смысле связана с позицией, которая всегда вне доминантных в то или иное время идеологий социализма и капитализма. Исследование сфокусировано на импровизационных практиках двух персонажей, живущих extempore и их усилиях по переоценке сохранившейся материальности Советского индустриального периода.

  • Unforgettable Landscapes:

    University of Arizona Press eBooks · 2022-08-16 · 2 citations

    book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
  • The human and climate drivers of Holocene grassland fires in the South Caucasus: A macro-charcoal, brGDGTs, and pollen reconstruction

    2021-03-04

    preprintOpen access

    <p>The mountainous area of Armenia has been a steppe throughout the Holocene with a rich history of fire events throughout this period. Previous research has found that changes in fire are linked to shifts between Poaceae grasslands and semi-arid Chenopodiaceae steppes. However, the climate and human drivers of these fires has yet to be fully explored in an area where agriculture has been practiced for almost 8,000 years. To elucidate these changes, we performed and compiled macro-charcoal analysis on four wetland sediment cores from the Kasakh Valley, Armenia. We aimed to understand fire frequency, intensity, size, and drivers of these events. In addition, we utilize a paleotemperature molecular biomarker branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs), a pollen climate reconstruction for temperature and precipitation, and the vast amount of archaeological data to help us untangle these changes. Early results suggest fires increase as temperature rose during the early Holocene and continue to increase with temperature during the Mid-Holocene despite an increase in agriculture during the Early Bronze Age. Between 4000 - 2000 cal. BP fires are small and almost disappear from the record. During this period these declines appear to be driven both by temperature fluctuations and an increase in regional mobile pastoralism resulting in declining biomass. Over the last 2000 years, humans appear to be the primary driver of fires with an increase in large intense events that are local to the watershed.</p>

  • An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era

    Norwegian Archaeological Review · 2021-03-26 · 2 citations

    article1st authorCorresponding

    Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal’s book is either a manifesto in the guise of a textbook, or a textbook in the guise of a manifesto. Like any good textbook, the book approximates a comprehensive compilation...

  • False dilemmas? Or what COVID-19 can teach us about material theory, responsibility and ‘hard power’

    Antiquity · 2020 · 10 citations

    1st authorCorresponding
    • Epistemology
    • Mathematics
    • Philosophy

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  • The vegetation, climate, and fire history of a mountain steppe: A Holocene reconstruction from the South Caucasus, Shenkani, Armenia

    Quaternary Science Reviews · 2020 · 45 citations

    • Physical geography
    • Geography
    • Ecology

Frequent coauthors

  • Adam T. Smith

    11 shared
  • Ruben Badalyan

    National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

    8 shared
  • Ian Lindsay

    Purdue University West Lafayette

    7 shared
  • Lucas Dugerdil

    Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

    7 shared
  • Amy Cromartie

    Cornell University

    6 shared
  • Sébastien Joannin

    Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier

    6 shared
  • Odile Peyron

    Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier

    6 shared
  • Chéïma Barhoumi

    5 shared

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  • LOLPI

    The Landscapes and Objects Laboratory at Cornell University

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