The first aim of the season was to conclude the study of the EBA materials from the important site of Natsargora in the Khashuri district excavated in 1984-1989 by the late A. Ramishvili of the Khashuri Archaeological expedition. This work had been started in 2009, when the cemetery finds had been processed, and was continued during the first and last weeks of work by all the archaeologists of the team, and by ca half of them during the remaining time. This year we processed the material (pottery, lithics and miscellaneous small finds) from the contemporary settlement levels. All finds were measured and described anew and (when necessary) restored, and new digital photos were taken of them. They were compared with the original drawings and necessary corrections were made to the latter. All relevant data were inserted into a dedicated database. At the same time we finished the translation and digitalization of the relevant written and graphic documentation (1985-1987 excavation diaries), thus progressing toward the final evaluation of the site’s stratigraphy and interpretation. A short visit to the site helped to solve a few still standing questions about the location and dimensions of the excavation areas. A typology of the site’s EBA pottery was produced on the basis of the first-hand study of the material and of the results of the archaeometric analyses carried out during the past year on the samples collected in 2009. The autoptic work on the Natsargora material can thus be considered concluded. A few days were also dedicated to the final editing of some of the contributions to the first volume of the site’s final publication (general introduction to the site and EBA graves), which is in advanced state of redaction and is foreseen to be delivered to the publisher in June 2011. 
    The  results of the 2009 study season have been presented at international congresses (Symposium "The Caucasus: Georgia on the Crossroads. Cultural Exchanges Across Europe and Beyond" (Firenze 2-9 November 2009, "7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (London, 12-16 April 2010); both contributions are presently in press.