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The Architecture of Uphlistsikhe
http://www.open.ge/art/treasure/Uphl-AMS.PDF
Uphlistsikhe is a rock-hewn town with levels from the early Iron Age, tenth-ninth centuries , u to the late medieval period.
Temples and Palaces in the Ancient Georgia
http://www.open.ge/art/treasure/temples_and_palaces_eng.pdf
A number of remains of the Antique period structures have been discovered in last few decades in Georgia. Naturally except trying to date them one of the main point is to identify their function.
Stranger in a New Land
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=stranger-in-a-new-land
From Scientific American, stunning finds in the Republic of Georgia upend long-standing ideas about the first hominids to journey out of Africa.
On the Importance of the "Misimian's" Kodori Route in the 1st-6th Centuries
http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/Eran/Articles/bagaturia.html
Article by Eliso Bagaturia. Prospects of Transcaucasian transit in the process of intensification of Silk Road running from China via Turkestan to the Eastern Mediterranean since the 1st century C.E.
Impact of the Achaemenian Architecture on Iberian Kingdom
http://www.open.ge/art/treasure/impact.pdf
Focused on a limited period of time from the fourth century to the first century BCE and describes phenomenon when the architecture of the Iberian kingdom preserved impulses, which came from Achaemenian metropolis well beyond the fall of the Achaemenian Empire.
Function of Some Uphlistsikhe Cave Complexes
http://www.open.ge/art/treasure/function_eng.pdf
A rock-hewn town with levels from the early Iron Age, tenth-ninth centuries BCE, up to the late medieval period.