Krubera Cave - Wikipedia
WEBThe Arabika Massif, the home of Krubera (Voronya) Cave, is one of the largest high-mountain limestone karst massifs in the Western Caucasus. It is composed of Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic limestones that dip continuously southwest to the Black Sea and plunge below the modern sea level.
Georgia’s mysterious rock-hewed cave city | CNN
WEBDec 3, 2021 · Vardzia, Georgia: Scattered across the slopes of Erusheti in Georgia's Samtskhe-Javakheti region, the dramatic cave city of Vardzia once consisted of 6,000 rooms spread across 19 levels. Melanie...
Veryovkina Cave – Gagra, Georgia - Atlas Obscura
WEBAug 6, 2020 · Discover Veryovkina Cave in Gagra, Georgia: Veryovkina Cave is more than 1.3 miles deep—the deepest known in the world.
Prehistoric Caucasus - Wikipedia
WEBThe Caucasus region, on the gateway between Southwest Asia, Europe and Central Asia, plays a pivotal role in the peopling of Eurasia , possibly as early as during the Homo erectus expansion to Eurasia, in the Upper Paleolithic peopling of Europe, and again in the re-peopling Mesolithic Europe following the Last Glacial Maximum, and in the ...
Mezmaiskaya cave - Wikipedia
WEBMezmaiskaya Cave (Russian: Мезмайская пещера) is a prehistoric cave site overlooking the right bank of the Sukhoi Kurdzhips (a tributary of the Kurdzhips River) in the southern Russian Republic of Adygea, located in the northwestern foothills of the North Caucasus in the Caucasus Mountains system.
Prehistoric sites of the Azykh and Taghlar caves
WEBIt is the largest limestone cave ever found in the Caucasus and extends through maze-like passageways for nearly 600 meters. The cave comprises a total area of about 8,000 square meters and includes eight large hallways or grottos, some with very high domed ceilings reaching up to 20-25 meters.
New insights into the Upper Palaeolithic of the Caucasus through …
WEBNov 8, 2021 · Here we present an archaeozoological, technological and use-wear study of pendants from two UP Southern Caucasus assemblages, Dzudzuana Cave and Satsurblia Cave, located 30 km apart in the Imereti region, Georgia.
Prometheus Cave – Kumistavi, Georgia - Atlas Obscura
WEBOct 28, 2015 · Discovered in 1984, the cave boasts a wonderful array of stalactites, stalagmites, petrified waterfalls, cave pearls, underground rivers, and lakes.
Caucasus | Mountains, Facts, & Map | Britannica
WEB2 days ago · Caucasus, mountains and region lying between the Black Sea (west) and the Caspian Sea (east) and occupied by Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. The great historic barrier of the Caucasus Mountains rises up across the wide isthmus where Europe and Asia converge.
(PDF) Dzudzuana: an Upper Palaeolithic cave site in the Caucasus ...
WEBDzudzuana Cave provides us, for the first time, with a chronological framework for the Upper Palaeolithic cultural manifestations uncovered during many years of excavations in caves and rockshelters in the southern foothills of the Caucasus.
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