Birds Cave is situated in the Noravank Canyon and is one of the rarest and best-preserved late Chalcolithic (Copper Age) monuments in the South Caucasus, study of which gives us a chance to understand not only the peculiarities of the material culture in the 5th-4th millenniums BC, but which also shows us that wine-production in Armenia has at least a 6,000 year history. It consists of three rooms or halls, the first two of which are connected by passageways. Artifacts found by the entrance to the first room point to its use as a ‘living quarter’ with remnants of dwellings, fortified floors and wells. Judging from the various food storage pots and jars, wine-press and excellently preserved remnants of grape, plum, apricot, wheat, oat etc. seeds and sprouts found inside the pots, this was a production room. This part of the cave had another use—as a ritual hall. The buried skulls of [two] young women were discovered next to structures made of clay. These burials, most probably, reflect ancient ideas about fertility ritual.