Acknowledgements

    Thanks are due to the Lagodekhi Regional Department of the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth for inviting us to work in the region; to the Lagodekhi Municipality for facilitating our work in many ways. The 2019 autumn season of the Georgian-Italian Lagodekhi Archaeological expedition was funded by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Fondo Ateneo Scavi Archeologici 2019) and Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (Contributi missioni archeologiche, antropologiche e etnologiche italiane all’estero).