Report on the Activities of the Second Field Season of the Joint Shida Kartli Project
Introduction
The second field season of the Shida Kartli project of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) in cooperation with the Georgian National Museum (Georgia) took place from August the 21st to October the 4th, 2010.
The Italian team was composed of the following members: prof. Elena Rova (Ca’ Foscari University Venice, co-director, chief of the Italian team), Katia Gavagnin (Ph. D. candidate, University of Torino), Eleonora Carminati, Giulia De Nobili and Mirko Furlanetto (MA students in Near Eastern Archaeology at Ca’ Foscari University), dr. Stefano Furlani (University of Padova), geomorphologist, Alberto Stinghen (MA student in Geology at Padova University), and dr. Elisabetta Boaretto (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel), C14 specialist.
The Georgian team consisted of: dr. Zurab Makharadze (Georgian National Museum, Centre of Archaeology- Head of Field Research Department, co-director), prof. Marina Puturidze (Department of Archaeology Tbilisi State University, co-director), Ketevan Bulukhia, Davit Darejanashvili, Giorgi Khaburzania, Giorgi Kvaratskhelia, Tamar Meladze, Zviad Sherazadishvili, Revaz Vadachkoria (students in Archaeology at Tbilisi State University).
The Italian team arrived in Tbilisi on August the 22th. On August the 25th the expedition moved to the dig-house at Kavtishkhevi in the Kaspi district kindly provided by the Georgian National Museum, from where it carried out its activities until October the 2nd, when it left to Tbilisi. This year’s work included new excavations as well as indoor study of unpublished materials from old excavations, survey activities and collection of samples for archaeometric analyses.
The Italian team was composed of the following members: prof. Elena Rova (Ca’ Foscari University Venice, co-director, chief of the Italian team), Katia Gavagnin (Ph. D. candidate, University of Torino), Eleonora Carminati, Giulia De Nobili and Mirko Furlanetto (MA students in Near Eastern Archaeology at Ca’ Foscari University), dr. Stefano Furlani (University of Padova), geomorphologist, Alberto Stinghen (MA student in Geology at Padova University), and dr. Elisabetta Boaretto (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel), C14 specialist.
The Georgian team consisted of: dr. Zurab Makharadze (Georgian National Museum, Centre of Archaeology- Head of Field Research Department, co-director), prof. Marina Puturidze (Department of Archaeology Tbilisi State University, co-director), Ketevan Bulukhia, Davit Darejanashvili, Giorgi Khaburzania, Giorgi Kvaratskhelia, Tamar Meladze, Zviad Sherazadishvili, Revaz Vadachkoria (students in Archaeology at Tbilisi State University).
The Italian team arrived in Tbilisi on August the 22th. On August the 25th the expedition moved to the dig-house at Kavtishkhevi in the Kaspi district kindly provided by the Georgian National Museum, from where it carried out its activities until October the 2nd, when it left to Tbilisi. This year’s work included new excavations as well as indoor study of unpublished materials from old excavations, survey activities and collection of samples for archaeometric analyses.