Science: Archaeology: Regional: Asia: Georgia

Article by Eliso Bagaturia. Prospects of Transcaucasian transit in the process of intensification of Silk Road running from China via Turkestan to the Eastern Mediterranean since the 1st century C.E.

From Scientific American, stunning finds in the Republic of Georgia upend long-standing ideas about the first hominids to journey out of Africa.

Uphlistsikhe is a rock-hewn town with levels from the early Iron Age, tenth-ninth centuries , u to the late medieval period.

A rock-hewn town with levels from the early Iron Age, tenth-ninth centuries BCE, up to the late medieval period.

Focused on a limited period of time from the fourth century to the first century BCE and describes phenomenon when the architecture of the Iberian kingdom preserved impulses, which came from Achaemenian metropolis well beyond the fall of the Achaemenian Empire.

A number of remains of the Antique period structures have been discovered in last few decades in Georgia. Naturally except trying to date them one of the main point is to identify their function.

An international research team has been reinvestigating Ortvale Klde, a Palaeolithic rockshelter located in the Georgian Republic. The main goals of this project have been to document Middle and Upper Palaeolithic patterns of lithic reduction, land-use and mobility; and date the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic chronological boundary.