Eliso Kvavadze
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 296287 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Eliso Kvavadze |
| PRENOMES | Eliso |
| SOBRENOME | Kvavadze |
| ASSINATURA | KVAVADZE E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Georgian National Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6059-0861 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 204 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Bioarchaeological and Palynological Studies of Graves from Samshvilde
This paper presents the results of multidisciplinary research carried out at the Samshvilde Archaeological Complex (Georgia, South Caucasus) between 2016 and 2024 by a team from the University of Georgia, the Georgian National Museum, and Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The project aimed to help reconstruction of the aspects of paleoecology, paleodiet, paleopathology, social hierarchy, and medical practices among Late Bronze–Iron Ag…
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
Palynological study of archaeometallurgical artefacts from the Late Bronze Age copper smelting sites (Georgia)
Results of a palynological study of the contents of small glass bottles of the Late Antiquity from the Kanchaani Cemetery (Southeastern Georgia)
Eight small glass bottles (vials) have been obtained from five graves of the Kanchaani cemetery, dating to the 1st-3rd centuries AD. The objects came to the laboratory almost intact, and their contents have also survived. Analysis of the plant pollen and the study of non-pollen palynomorphs (NPP) of these contents showed that there was a set of various medicinal plants in seven bottles, and one bottle contained an infusion made from in-sects, whi…
Between Valleys and Mountains. The Dzedzvebi Plateau as an Intermediate Settlement Site of Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Communities in the Lesser Caucasus
The question of how societies have appropriated the resource-rich montane landscapes of the South Caucasus since the 5th millennium BCE and in which temporal rhythms this development took place is linked with regional mobility as well as the social and economic negotiation of the participating communities. Intermontane settle- ment areas like the large Dzedzvebi Plateau near Kazreti in south- east Georgia probably played an important role as inte…
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…
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
Dzudzuana
The report announces the important radiocarbon-dated sequence recently obtained at Dzudzuana Cave in the southern Caucasus foothills. The first occupants here were modern humans, inc. 34.5-32.2 ka cal BP, and comparison with dated sequences on the northern slope of the Caucasus suggests that their arrival was rapid and widespread. The rich, well-dated assemblages of lithics, bone tools and a few art objects, coloured fibres, pollen and animal rem…
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…
Comparing pollen spectra from modified Tauber traps and moss samples
This paper compares pollen spectra derived from modified Tauber traps and moss samples from a selection of woodland types from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Poland, Switzerland and Wales. The study examines the representation of individual taxa in the two sampling media and aims to ascertain the duration of pollen deposition captured by a moss. The latter aim was pursued through the calculation of dissimilarity indexes to assess …
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Dmanisi site (Georgia) based on palaeobotanical data
Environmental reconstruction and dating of Shizitan 29, Shanxi Province
Comparing pollen spectra from modified Tauber traps and moss samples
This paper compares pollen spectra derived from modified Tauber traps and moss samples from a selection of woodland types from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Poland, Switzerland and Wales. The study examines the representation of individual taxa in the two sampling media and aims to ascertain the duration of pollen deposition captured by a moss. The latter aim was pursued through the calculation of dissimilarity indexes to assess …
Dzudzuana
The report announces the important radiocarbon-dated sequence recently obtained at Dzudzuana Cave in the southern Caucasus foothills. The first occupants here were modern humans, inc. 34.5-32.2 ka cal BP, and comparison with dated sequences on the northern slope of the Caucasus suggests that their arrival was rapid and widespread. The rich, well-dated assemblages of lithics, bone tools and a few art objects, coloured fibres, pollen and animal rem…
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)
Estimating absolute pollen productivity for some European Tertiary-relict taxa
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
A 5600-yr history of changing vegetation, sea levels and human impacts from the Black Sea coast of Georgia
Mid-late Holocene pollen evidence from the Ispani-II Sphagnum bog in lowland Western Georgia shows that 4500 years ago Castanea (chestnut)-dominated woods rapidly declined to be replaced by alder swamps and, later, during the first millennium bc, by open, marshy landscapes in which fire played a prominent part. Around 1900 years ago, Sphagnum blanket bog encroached on the marshes and dense Fagus-Carpinus (beech-hornbeam) forest enveloped the surr…
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 …
Between Valleys and Mountains. The Dzedzvebi Plateau as an Intermediate Settlement Site of Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Communities in the Lesser Caucasus
The question of how societies have appropriated the resource-rich montane landscapes of the South Caucasus since the 5th millennium BCE and in which temporal rhythms this development took place is linked with regional mobility as well as the social and economic negotiation of the participating communities. Intermontane settle- ment areas like the large Dzedzvebi Plateau near Kazreti in south- east Georgia probably played an important role as inte…
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…
Present‐day and mid‐Holocene biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from the former Soviet Union and Mongolia
Fossil pollen data supplemented by tree macrofossil records were used to reconstruct the vegetation of the Former Soviet Union and Mongolia at 6000 years. Pollen spectra were assigned to biomes using the plant‐functional‐type method developed by Prentice et al . (1996). Surface pollen data and a modern vegetation map provided a test of the method. This is the first time such a broad‐scale vegetation reconstruction for the greater part of northern…
The first find in southern Georgia of fossil honey from the Bronze Age, based on palynological data
A 5600-yr history of changing vegetation, sea levels and human impacts from the Black Sea coast of Georgia
Mid-late Holocene pollen evidence from the Ispani-II Sphagnum bog in lowland Western Georgia shows that 4500 years ago Castanea (chestnut)-dominated woods rapidly declined to be replaced by alder swamps and, later, during the first millennium bc, by open, marshy landscapes in which fire played a prominent part. Around 1900 years ago, Sphagnum blanket bog encroached on the marshes and dense Fagus-Carpinus (beech-hornbeam) forest enveloped the surr…
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
Year-Old Wild Flax Fibers
Dyed flax fibers from 30,000 years ago show that humans in the Caucasus were making colored twine at that time.
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Dmanisi site (Georgia) based on palaeobotanical data
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…
Comparing pollen spectra from modified Tauber traps and moss samples
This paper compares pollen spectra derived from modified Tauber traps and moss samples from a selection of woodland types from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Poland, Switzerland and Wales. The study examines the representation of individual taxa in the two sampling media and aims to ascertain the duration of pollen deposition captured by a moss. The latter aim was pursued through the calculation of dissimilarity indexes to assess …
Estimating absolute pollen productivity for some European Tertiary-relict taxa
Dzudzuana
The report announces the important radiocarbon-dated sequence recently obtained at Dzudzuana Cave in the southern Caucasus foothills. The first occupants here were modern humans, inc. 34.5-32.2 ka cal BP, and comparison with dated sequences on the northern slope of the Caucasus suggests that their arrival was rapid and widespread. The rich, well-dated assemblages of lithics, bone tools and a few art objects, coloured fibres, pollen and animal rem…
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 …
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…
Geography (28 obras) · Archaeology (22 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 obras) · Biology (21 obras) · Pollen (18 obras) · Botany (13 obras) · Palynology (12 obras) · Ecology (11 obras) · Geology (11 obras) · Bronze Age (8 obras)