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Finding a hidden highland culture in the mountains of southern Georgia

Archaeologists are unearthing evidence of long-term human occupation in the mountains of the Republic of Georgia. A new paper published in the journal Antiquity reports on eight years of digging on the Javakheti Plateau, one of the least-explored regions in the South Caucasus.

Finding a hidden highland culture in the mountains of southern Georgia
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Archaeologists are unearthing evidence of long-term human occupation in the mountains of the Republic of Georgia. A new paper published in the journal Antiquity reports on eight years of digging on the Javakheti Plateau, one of the least-explored regions in the South Caucasus.

Originally published at Phys.org

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