Maia Chichinadze
Biographic Data
| ID | 6054236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maia Chichinadze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maia |
| FAMILY NAME | Chichinadze |
| SIGNATURE | CHICHINADZE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgian National Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3209-3654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Interdisciplinary Insights into Early Holocene Life
Khutsubani is one of the most remarkable archaeological sites in the Kintrishi Gorge, offering crucial insights into the mobility of people inhabiting Ajara (Western Georgia) during the Early Holocene period. The site provides valuable information on the paleoenvironment, activities, stone processing techniques, and connections with the Middle East. In 2024, an expedition from the Kobuleti Museum conducted extensive archaeological fieldwork at th…
On the principal human activity (fishing) and preliminary environmental data from the Neolithic Chorokhi Valley (Georgia)
Middle to late Holocene lake level changes of Lake Sevan (Armenia) – Evidence from macro and micro plant remains of Tsovinar-1 peat section
Palynology as an important tool for the reconstruction of diet, diseases and folk medicine of the population of the Classical Period settlement Namcheduri II (western Georgia)
Layers of the Namcheduri II settlement (Western Georgia) dated from the 5th-4th centuries BC have been studied by the palynological method. It revealed that cereals represented the main component of the population’s diet in the discussed period. The nutritive ratio included chestnut, hazel, walnut, and grapes. The majority of the plants apparently used for medical purposes represent medicinal remedies against rheumatism, arthritis, and diarrhea. …
Late Islamic water collection systems on Failaka Island
Archaeological investigations on Failaka Island, conducted by the Kuwait–Georgian Archeological Mission, have recorded a variety of sites dating from different time periods, from the Bronze Age to the late Islamic/modern period. The largest proportion of recorded sites consist of late Islamic seasonal settlement structures found in the north‐eastern part of the island. It is possible that they were connected to fishing and associated activities s…
South-East Black Sea coast in Early Holocene period (according to interdisciplinary archaeological investigations in Kobuleti site)
The paper presents the results of interdisciplinary research carried out at the Kobuleti Early Holocene site. Typological and use-wear analyses of stone artifacts helped to define the main branch of the economy of humans at the site. Palynological studies were conducted to reconstruct the paleoenvironment. The investigated plant spores proved that the climate in the Early Holocene was warm. Definition of an absolute date by means of the radiocarb…
Palynological evidence for the use of honey in funerary rites during the Classical Period at the Vani
Palynological and Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Use of Wine in the Kura-Araxes Period at Aradetis Orgora (Georgia, Caucasus)
Pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from two zoomorphic Kura-Araxes vessels (ca. 3000 b.c.) from Aradetis Orgora suggest they were utilized for the ritual consumption of wine and likely represent the beginning of the enduring tradition of animal-shaped wine-drinking containers in Georgia. This hypothesis is supported by archaeological and geoarchaeological data: they resemble later wine-containing vessels from Georgia and elsewhere and were found …
Environmental reconstruction and dating of Shizitan 29, Shanxi Province
Some popular medicinal plants and diseases of the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Georgia
The hidden side of ritual
Bone needle fragment in LGM from the Shizitan site (China)
Archaeobotanical and isotopic evidence of Early Bronze Age farming activities and diet in the mountainous environment of the South Caucasus
Environmental context of the Kura-Araxes culture
La culture Kura-Araxe s’est épanouie dans le sud du Caucase et les régions voisines au cours des 4e et 3e millénaires. De façon plus marquée que dans les périodes précédentes, cette époque a connu une concentration de populations sur les hautes terres de la région, qui couvrent un vaste territoire. Les données paléoécologiques suggèrent que les forêts à feuilles caduques ont atteint leur extension maximale à cette époque, par suite de changements…
Pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs in organic residue from the hoard of ancient Vani (western Georgia)
Palaeoenvironmental change in the foothills of Imereti (western Georgia) during the Upper Palaeolithic Period according to new palynological data of cave materials
Climatic optima in the mountains of Georgia during Middle Age
Fibres of Linum (flax), Gossypium (cotton) and animal wool as non-pollen palynomorphs in the late Bronze Age burials of Saphar-Kharaba, southern Georgia
Palynology of the Paravani burial mound (Early Bronze Age, Georgia)
Annual pollen traps reveal the complexity of climatic control on pollen productivity in Europe and the Caucasus
Annual PAR (pollen accumulation rates; grains cm−2 year−1) were studied with modified Tauber traps situated in ten regions, in Poland (Roztocze), the Czech Republic (two regions in Krkonoše, two in Šumava), Switzerland (4 regions in the Alps), and Georgia (Lagodekhi). The time-series are 10–16 years long, all ending in 2007. We calculated correlations between pollen data and climate. Pollen data are PAR summarized per region (4–7 traps selected p…
Fibres of silk, cotton and flax in a weaving workshop from the first century a.d. palace of Dedoplis Gora, Georgia
Botanical and zoological remains from an early medieval grave at Tsitsamuri, Georgia
The first find in southern Georgia of fossil honey from the Bronze Age, based on palynological data
Environmental reconstruction and dating of Shizitan 29, Shanxi Province
Bone needle fragment in LGM from the Shizitan site (China)
Annual pollen traps reveal the complexity of climatic control on pollen productivity in Europe and the Caucasus
Annual PAR (pollen accumulation rates; grains cm−2 year−1) were studied with modified Tauber traps situated in ten regions, in Poland (Roztocze), the Czech Republic (two regions in Krkonoše, two in Šumava), Switzerland (4 regions in the Alps), and Georgia (Lagodekhi). The time-series are 10–16 years long, all ending in 2007. We calculated correlations between pollen data and climate. Pollen data are PAR summarized per region (4–7 traps selected p…
Palynology of the Paravani burial mound (Early Bronze Age, Georgia)
Fibres of Linum (flax), Gossypium (cotton) and animal wool as non-pollen palynomorphs in the late Bronze Age burials of Saphar-Kharaba, southern Georgia
Botanical and zoological remains from an early medieval grave at Tsitsamuri, Georgia
Environmental context of the Kura-Araxes culture
La culture Kura-Araxe s’est épanouie dans le sud du Caucase et les régions voisines au cours des 4e et 3e millénaires. De façon plus marquée que dans les périodes précédentes, cette époque a connu une concentration de populations sur les hautes terres de la région, qui couvrent un vaste territoire. Les données paléoécologiques suggèrent que les forêts à feuilles caduques ont atteint leur extension maximale à cette époque, par suite de changements…
The first find in southern Georgia of fossil honey from the Bronze Age, based on palynological data
The hidden side of ritual
Archaeobotanical and isotopic evidence of Early Bronze Age farming activities and diet in the mountainous environment of the South Caucasus
Palynological and Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Use of Wine in the Kura-Araxes Period at Aradetis Orgora (Georgia, Caucasus)
Pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from two zoomorphic Kura-Araxes vessels (ca. 3000 b.c.) from Aradetis Orgora suggest they were utilized for the ritual consumption of wine and likely represent the beginning of the enduring tradition of animal-shaped wine-drinking containers in Georgia. This hypothesis is supported by archaeological and geoarchaeological data: they resemble later wine-containing vessels from Georgia and elsewhere and were found …
Late Islamic water collection systems on Failaka Island
Archaeological investigations on Failaka Island, conducted by the Kuwait–Georgian Archeological Mission, have recorded a variety of sites dating from different time periods, from the Bronze Age to the late Islamic/modern period. The largest proportion of recorded sites consist of late Islamic seasonal settlement structures found in the north‐eastern part of the island. It is possible that they were connected to fishing and associated activities s…
The first find in southern Georgia of fossil honey from the Bronze Age, based on palynological data
Fibres of silk, cotton and flax in a weaving workshop from the first century a.d. palace of Dedoplis Gora, Georgia
Botanical and zoological remains from an early medieval grave at Tsitsamuri, Georgia
Fibres of Linum (flax), Gossypium (cotton) and animal wool as non-pollen palynomorphs in the late Bronze Age burials of Saphar-Kharaba, southern Georgia
Palynology of the Paravani burial mound (Early Bronze Age, Georgia)
Annual pollen traps reveal the complexity of climatic control on pollen productivity in Europe and the Caucasus
Annual PAR (pollen accumulation rates; grains cm−2 year−1) were studied with modified Tauber traps situated in ten regions, in Poland (Roztocze), the Czech Republic (two regions in Krkonoše, two in Šumava), Switzerland (4 regions in the Alps), and Georgia (Lagodekhi). The time-series are 10–16 years long, all ending in 2007. We calculated correlations between pollen data and climate. Pollen data are PAR summarized per region (4–7 traps selected p…
Palaeoenvironmental change in the foothills of Imereti (western Georgia) during the Upper Palaeolithic Period according to new palynological data of cave materials
Climatic optima in the mountains of Georgia during Middle Age
Pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs in organic residue from the hoard of ancient Vani (western Georgia)
Archaeobotanical and isotopic evidence of Early Bronze Age farming activities and diet in the mountainous environment of the South Caucasus
Environmental context of the Kura-Araxes culture
La culture Kura-Araxe s’est épanouie dans le sud du Caucase et les régions voisines au cours des 4e et 3e millénaires. De façon plus marquée que dans les périodes précédentes, cette époque a connu une concentration de populations sur les hautes terres de la région, qui couvrent un vaste territoire. Les données paléoécologiques suggèrent que les forêts à feuilles caduques ont atteint leur extension maximale à cette époque, par suite de changements…
Some popular medicinal plants and diseases of the Upper Palaeolithic in Western Georgia
The hidden side of ritual
Bone needle fragment in LGM from the Shizitan site (China)
Environmental reconstruction and dating of Shizitan 29, Shanxi Province
Palynological evidence for the use of honey in funerary rites during the Classical Period at the Vani
Palynological and Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Use of Wine in the Kura-Araxes Period at Aradetis Orgora (Georgia, Caucasus)
Pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from two zoomorphic Kura-Araxes vessels (ca. 3000 b.c.) from Aradetis Orgora suggest they were utilized for the ritual consumption of wine and likely represent the beginning of the enduring tradition of animal-shaped wine-drinking containers in Georgia. This hypothesis is supported by archaeological and geoarchaeological data: they resemble later wine-containing vessels from Georgia and elsewhere and were found …
South-East Black Sea coast in Early Holocene period (according to interdisciplinary archaeological investigations in Kobuleti site)
The paper presents the results of interdisciplinary research carried out at the Kobuleti Early Holocene site. Typological and use-wear analyses of stone artifacts helped to define the main branch of the economy of humans at the site. Palynological studies were conducted to reconstruct the paleoenvironment. The investigated plant spores proved that the climate in the Early Holocene was warm. Definition of an absolute date by means of the radiocarb…
Late Islamic water collection systems on Failaka Island
Archaeological investigations on Failaka Island, conducted by the Kuwait–Georgian Archeological Mission, have recorded a variety of sites dating from different time periods, from the Bronze Age to the late Islamic/modern period. The largest proportion of recorded sites consist of late Islamic seasonal settlement structures found in the north‐eastern part of the island. It is possible that they were connected to fishing and associated activities s…
Palynology as an important tool for the reconstruction of diet, diseases and folk medicine of the population of the Classical Period settlement Namcheduri II (western Georgia)
Layers of the Namcheduri II settlement (Western Georgia) dated from the 5th-4th centuries BC have been studied by the palynological method. It revealed that cereals represented the main component of the population’s diet in the discussed period. The nutritive ratio included chestnut, hazel, walnut, and grapes. The majority of the plants apparently used for medical purposes represent medicinal remedies against rheumatism, arthritis, and diarrhea. …
Middle to late Holocene lake level changes of Lake Sevan (Armenia) – Evidence from macro and micro plant remains of Tsovinar-1 peat section
Interdisciplinary Insights into Early Holocene Life
Khutsubani is one of the most remarkable archaeological sites in the Kintrishi Gorge, offering crucial insights into the mobility of people inhabiting Ajara (Western Georgia) during the Early Holocene period. The site provides valuable information on the paleoenvironment, activities, stone processing techniques, and connections with the Middle East. In 2024, an expedition from the Kobuleti Museum conducted extensive archaeological fieldwork at th…
On the principal human activity (fishing) and preliminary environmental data from the Neolithic Chorokhi Valley (Georgia)
Geography (21 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 works) · Archaeology (16 works) · Biology (14 works) · Pollen (14 works) · Palynology (10 works) · Botany (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Geology (7 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (6 works)