An article by David Gagoshidze, a research fellow at the Tamaz Beradze Institute of Kartvelology of the University of Georgia, titled “Syncretic Religious Practice at Dedoplis Gora (Caucasian Iberia) in the First Century CE”, has been published in one of the world’s most prestigious academic journals, the American Journal of Archaeology.
Notably, the cover of this issue of the journal features a photograph of "Dedoplis Gora" a multi-layered archaeological site located in the Kareli Municipality, on the left bank of the western tributary of the Mtkvari River (Ptsiula), near its confluence with the Mtkvari, within an extensive plain bordered by the western and eastern Frone rivers and a section of the Kvernaki Ridge—further underscoring the significance of this publication.
David Gagoshidze is the second Georgian scholar whose article has been published in the American Journal of Archaeology.
It is noteworthy that the first Georgian author to publish in the journal was Otar Lortkipanidze (AJA, 2003): https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.3764/aja.107.1.105
David Gagoshidze’s article: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738159
