Levon sargsyan biography samples
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It seems like every Sunday after church, I’m confronted by the same question: “How many times have you been to Armenia?” I never have a sufficient answer regardless of whether the question is posed by a five-year-old, or one of the Nenes [grandmothers].
At this point, there really is no excuse – Armenianness has brought me to California, Italy and France (twice each); but I have not yet stepped foot on Armenian soil. I’m a reluctant pilgrim.
After years of feebly trying to justify why I haven’t been, I think it’s time to come clean. I need to confess something I think many Armenians in the Diaspora feel—especially in older generations—but are ashamed to admit: I am afraid of Armenia.
“Armenia” has always been a concept to me, which manifests itself in various forms. Conceptually, Armenia is standing on the dock at an Armenian-American summer camp, listening to oud-and-clarinet kef music, dancing the Michigan Hop, and screaming System of a Down lyrics on the bus back from a seminar. For me, Armenia has always been located in the small plot of land in Franklin, Massachusetts that makes up Camp Haiastan; the few blocks in East Watertown that are inhabited primarily by Armenians; and individual houses scattered across the Boston area. Armenia is at the foot
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Published in final edited form as: Science. 2022 Aug 26;377(6609):eabm4247. doi: 10.1126/science.abm4247
Iosif Lazaridis
1Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
2Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg
2Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
3Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Ayşe Acar
4Mardin Artuklu University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Anthropology, Artuklu, 47510, Mardin, Turkey
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Ayşen Açıkkol
5Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Anthropology, 58140 Sivas, Turkey
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Anagnostis Agelarakis
6Department of History, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530, USA
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Levon Aghikyan
7Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, NAS RA, 0025 Yerevan, Armenia
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