The University of Georgia

Eliso Kvavadze
Professor
Doctor
Department of Archaeology, Anthropology and Art
School of Arts and Humanities

Publications

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Patterns in recent and Holocene pollen accumulation rates across Europe – the Pollen Monitoring Programme Database as a tool for vegetation reconstruction. - 0

The results of palynological research of contents of small glass perfume bottles of Classical period from Kanchaan Cemmetery Site (Western Georgia). - 0

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The significance of pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs in Archaeological material for human paleodiet reconstruction In Context and Connection, Studies on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honour of Antonio Sagona - 2018

Archaeological and palynological investigation of the Paravani Kurgan, Georgia. In Context and Connection, Studies on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honour of Antonio Sagona - 2018

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Palynological evidence for the use of honeyin funerary rites during the Classical Periodat the Vani - 2019

Das organische Material ausdem Kurgan Nr. 3 von Ananauri. Gold & Wein Georgien sälteste Schätze - 2019

Palynological and Archaeological Evidence for Ritual Use of Wine in the Kura-Araxes Period at Aradetis Orgora (Georgia, Caucasus) - 2019

Chalcolithic occupation at Bronze Cave, Tsutskhvati Cave Complex - 2019

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Das organische Material aus dem Kurgan Nr. 3 von Ananauri. - 2019

Palynological and archaeological evidence for ritual use of wine in the Kura-Araxes Period at AradetisOrgora (Georgia, Caucasus) - 2019

Ancient human activities and environment: palynological date from Early Bronze Age of Georgia, Caucasus - 2020

Palynological analysis of organic materials from Pichvnari( including the earliest silk in Georgia) - 2020

Ancien human activities and environment:palynological date from Early Bronze Age of Georgia, Caucasus. - 2020

Late Islamic water collection systems on Failaka Island: Preliminary results of the Kuwait-Georgian Archaeological Mission in 2018-2019. - 2021

ღვინის უძველესი ზოომორფული სასმისი დედოფლის გორიდან. მუზეუმის საერთაშორისო დღისადმი მიძღვნილი სამეცნიერო კონფერენციის შრომები. „მუზეუმი და კულტურული მემკვიდრეობა, VI-VII - 2021

ვაზისა და ღვინის კულტურა საქართველოში: ღვინის ეროვნული სააგენტოს სამეცნიერო პროექტი. - 2021

Study of Archaeological Sites - 2021

The main results of research on the Kura-Araxis culture in Georgia. - 2021

Paleodiseases, palaeodiet and ethnomedicine in Colchis of Early Classical Period (results of palynological researches of the Namcheduri II Settlement). - 2022

Palynologu of Shengavit - 2023

Doglauri cemetery. BC year XV-VIII centuries - 2023

მეფე ლევან ბაგრატიონის განსასვენებელი გრემის მთავარანგელოზთა ეკლესიაში - 2023

Use of medicinal and edible purposes during the Upper Paleiolithic and Neolithic Period in the territory of Georgia according to palynological research - 2023

The archaeometallurgy of copper in the mountain regions of Colchis (Lechkhumi-Kvemo Svaneti), Georgia. - 2023

New opportunities for joint research of non pollen palynomorphs (NPP) and pollen for the reconstruction of the environment, living conditions and activities of ancient human. - 2023

Conferences

- 09-05-2019

International Workshop on Phytoliths and Non-Pollen Palynomorphs - 15-07-2019

XX INQUA Congress 2019 - 25-07-2019

XIX th NECLIME Meeting - 25-09-2019

53rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Societe of Palynologists - 09-08-2021

International Scientific Conference “Museum and Globalization - 05-11-2021

Scientific Projects

The Early Bronze Age settlers-insight into their life and environment through palynological research - 2016-2019

Neanderthals in the South Caucasus - 2016-2019

Changes of vegetation and plant resources in the Southern Caucasus-plant diversity in time and space (Plant BITES) - 2017-2019

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“The Middle Paleolithic in the Caucasus-perspectives from the newly discovered site of Kharagauli cave” - 2020-2023

"Research on Georgian Vine and Wine Culture" - 2021-2023

"South Caucasus in the Upper Pleistocene: cultural and ecological context" - 2022-2025

"Multidisciplinary study of the cultural and ecological context of the transition to the Middle and Upper Paleolithic on the example of Ortvala cave" - 2022-2025

Courses

palinology-ARCH 5131 ( 2019/2020; 2021/2022; 2024/2025; )

Eliso Kvavadze was born on 8 August 1948 in the village of Kvemo Magharo of the Sighnaghi region. She graduated from the Russian secondary school of the village of Ulyanovka, belonging to the same region. In 1967 she became a student of the Biogeographical Faculty of the Tbilisi A.S. Pushkin Pedagogical Institute. She became the Lenin scholarship-holder for her social activity and excellence in study. In 1971 Eliso Kvavadze graduated from the above-mentioned institute with honours diploma. In October 1971 she became an aspirant of the Faculty of Geography of the Moscow Lomonosov State University. She graduated from this university in 1975. In 1976 she defended her candidate thesis “The History of the Nature of the Colchian Lowland in Holocene” before the Scientific Board of the same university and she acquired the degree of the candidate of the geographical science. In December 1976 Eliso Kvavadze was enrolled into the Institute of Palaeobiology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences as a junior scientific researcher, where she continues her work up to now. In 1990 she defended her doctoral thesis “Actual Palynological Aspects in the Holocene Biostratigraphy and Palaeogeography of the Mountainous Regions of the Transcaucasus” and she received the doctoral degree in geology and mineralogy. Since 2006 the Institute of Palaeobiology was united under the aegis of the Georgian National Museum. Eliso Kvavadze represents the leading scientific worker of the museum. In the course of her 45-year-old scientific activity Eliso Kvavadze participated into publication of 10 monographs and atlases. She was the author of over 250 scientific papers published both in our country and abroad in high-impact factor journal ‘Science’. They deal with spinning of ancient flax thread in the Dzudzuana Cave and production of flax textile already 30 000 years ago. In 2009 this find was included into the ten top discoveries of the world. In 1989 Eliso Kvavadze was awarded the state prize for the best publications in the course of the Georgian-Polish collaboration. On the grounds of this collaboration she became the Mianovski scholarship-holder. She carried out researches in the Institute of Botany of the Krakow Academy of Sciences together with Polish palaeobotanists in the course of 6 months. The project resulted into a great publication concerning the palynological spectra of the present-day beech forests in the Caucasian and Carpathian mountains. The article was published in the Polish journal ‘Acta Palaeobotanica’. Eliso Kvavadze’s contribution into identification of the history of wine-making in Georgia is great. On the basis of her investigations, it was revealed that humans of the Neolithic Period were making wine already 8000 years ago. In 2016 this discovery was also included into the list of the prominent 10 discoveries. Researches of Eliso Kvavadze revealed ancient traces of apiculture, which were identified in the materials of the Neolithic sites. Great success was reached in the course of palynological investigation of materials obtained from the Neolithic sites. The study of twenty sites dated from the period in question showed peculiarities of farming activity of the ancient humans as well as surrounding ecological conditions. The palaeo diet, palaeo diseases, traditions, clothes, and other issues of lifestyle in the Early Bronze Age have been defined. She won 5 grants of the Shota Rustaveli Scientific Foundation in the course of last ten years. She was also the winner of the grants of the German Volkswagen and the Ministry of Education of Germany. In the 1990s she received the grants of the Soros Foundation and INTAS.