Gutanasar

{{Short description|Mountain in Armenia}}

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Gutanasar or Gut'anasar ({{langx|hy|Գութանասար}}) is a mountain in the Kotayk Province near Fantan in Armenia. It is a 7,543 ft (2,299 m) high.[http://peakery.com/gutanasar-lerr-armenia/ Gutanasar] Peakery A small Surb Astvatsatsin Church is located below it.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} It is a volcano which last erupted 200,000 BP, judging from Ar39/Ar40 dating of lava flows,{{cite journal|first1=Keith|last1=Wilkinson|first2=Daniel|last2=Adler|first3=Samvel|last3=Nahapetyan|first4=Victoria|last4=Smith|title=Middle Pleistocene palaeoenvironments and the late Lower-Middle Palaeolithic of the Hrazdan valley, central Armenia|date=1 May 2014|pages=1281|volume=16|first5=Darren|last5=Mark|first6=Carolina|last6=Mallol|authorlink6=Carolina Mallol|first7=Simon|last7=Blockley|first8=Boris|last8=Gasparian|journal=EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts|bibcode=2014EGUGA..16.1281W}} and one of the common sources of obsidian in archeological sites of Armenia.{{cite journal | url=http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/775/1578 | title=Lithic assemblages of Azokh Cave (Nagorno Karabagh, Lesser Caucasus): Raw materials, technology and regional context | journal=Journal of Lithic Studies | year=2014 | volume=1 | issue=1 | author1=Lena Asryan | author2=Andreu Ollé | author3=Norah Moloney | author4=Tania King}} Neighbouring communities include Fontan and Alapars. The volcano is part of the Geghama mountains volcanic area.{{cite journal| last1=Badalian| first1=R| last2=Bigazzi| first2=G| last3=Cauvin| first3=M.-C|last4=Chataigner|first4=C|last5=Jrbashyan|first5=R|last6=Karapetyan|first6=S.G|last7=Oddone|first7=M|last8=Poidevin|first8=J.-L|title=An international research project on Armenian archaeological sites: fission-track dating of obsidians|journal=Radiation Measurements|volume=34|issue=1–6|year=2001|pages=373–378|issn=1350-4487|doi=10.1016/S1350-4487(01)00189-5| bibcode=2001RadM...34..373B}} and appear to share a common feeding conduit.{{cite journal|last1=Frahm|first1=Ellery|last2=Feinberg|first2=Joshua M.|last3=Schmidt-Magee|first3=Beverly A.|last4=Wilkinson|first4=Keith|last5=Gasparyan|first5=Boris|last6=Yeritsyan|first6=Benik|last7=Karapetian|first7=Sergei|last8=Meliksetian|first8=Khachatur|last9=Muth|first9=Michelle J.|last10=Adler|first10=Daniel S.|title=Sourcing geochemically identical obsidian: multiscalar magnetic variations in the Gutansar volcanic complex and implications for Palaeolithic research in Armenia|journal=Journal of Archaeological Science|volume=47|year=2014|pages=164–178|issn=0305-4403|doi=10.1016/j.jas.2014.04.015|bibcode=2014JArSc..47..164F }}