The results of archaeological research of the rock-cut monuments in the Kvemo Kartli Region (Georgia)
2013, 52, Tom 52, Nr A
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The Georgian Republic is particularly rich in rock- -cut complexes belonging to different historical periods – from prehistoric times to the late Middle Ages. however, even two decadesago, Georgian and foreign scientists considered a well-known rock-cut cave ensemble created in the second half of the 1st millennium BC – Uplistsikhe (Gori District), as the earliest cut-in-the-rock monument in Georgia (АМИРАнАшВИЛИ 1963: 81–85). Absolutely different results were obtained by the Laboratory of Artificial Cavities at the Georgian Simon Janashia National Museum. Since the 1980s the Laboratory has been regularly carrying out architectural and archaeological research (headed by the author) into the ancient rock-cut monuments situated in Georgia (BAChTADSE 2005). The obtained data shows that the tradition of cutting spaces of various purposes in rock was common in Georgia in much earlier epochs. In some regions of Georgia traces of habitation of fairly numerous groups of humans in natural and slightly transformed cave-dwellings are attested at different stages of the Neolithic as well as Palaeolithic Periods (ЛОРдКИПАнИдзе 1989: 65–68). however, like in many neighbouring regions of the Eurasian continent, the foundation of the tradition for artificial cave-cutting here must have been laid at the turn of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Ages.
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