Bioarchaeology of the Near East, 15:122–127 (2021) Short fieldwork report Human remains from Metsamor, Armenia, 2013–2021 Hasmik Simonyan 1 , Krzysztof Jakubiak 2 , Arkadiusz Sołtysiak *2 1 Department of Archaeology, History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan, RA, Republic Square 4, 010 Armenia 2 Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland email: a.soltysiak@uw.edu.pl (corresponding author) e archaeological site of Metsamor is located in the Aras Valley near the modern village of Taronik (40 ◦ 7 ′ 35 ′′ N, 44 ◦ 11 ′ 17 ′′ E, 852masl, about 35km south-west from Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia (Figure 1). e site dominates over the local land- scape and at first glance it looks like a tell. e layout of the citadel, with monumental cyclopean walls, however, trace along the natural rocky hill edges. North of the citadel is the so-called lower town area where a Polish-Armenian team has conducted archae- ological excavations since 2012 (Jakubiak & Piliposyan 2021). Fieldwork has focused on the settlement layout dated to the Iron Age periods I–III. Among the architectural remains, several human burials were unearthed. Generally, the chronological range of these human remains is relatively large. e oldest among the discovered bodies were dated to the late 8 or the beginning of the 7 century BCE. e skeletons dated to that period were discovered buried in shallow graves. In these cases it was difficult to judge if they were intentionally dug out, or the dead Figure 1. Map showing location of Metsamor. Drawing by M. Iskra.