Lchashen funerary wagons
Carros funerarios de Lchashen
- Date
- c. 1500 BCE · confidence medium
- Place
- Lchashen, Lake Sevan, Gegharkunik, Armenia
- Credited to
- Late Bronze Age peoples of Lake Sevan (excavated by Soviet archaeologists from 1950)
- Field
- Movement
What was discovered
Tombs with preserved four-wheeled wooden wagons, with assembled-plank wheels and yokes, alongside wooden boat models with oars. They are among the best-preserved wheeled vehicles of the Bronze Age.
Late Bronze Age cemetery chronology (c. 1500-1200 BC) with several phases; the date of the specific find is approximate.
What it led to
- material testimony of Caucasian carpentry and transport in the 2nd millennium BC
- evidence of navigation on Lake Sevan
- comparison with the Trialeti wagons (Georgia) and steppe kurgans