Cultural Genocide and Usurpation of Armenian Places by Azerbaijani Authorities in Disputed Territories

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Azerbaijan government committed Cultural Genocide against Armenian sites in disputed territories before their most recent 2020 dispute. To fit the nationalistic narrative, Azerbaijan has been destroying or usurping important sites and churches and reshaping the landscape to erase any memory of Armenians. With the use of Armenian and Azerbaijani data, the hope is to locate disputed sites using GIS to identify their future status under Azerbaijan’s control. Next, using categorized eras such as Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman for the churches, a Chi-Square test was run to see if more harm would come to Pre or Ottoman-built churches. The objective is to determine whether either era may be in more immediate danger of cultural genocide.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35713.0