Guram Chkhatarashvili
Academic position: Assistant Professor
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History, Archaeology and Ethnology
Personal information
E-mail: guramchkhatarashvili@bsu.edu.ge
Education
- 25.07.2017 - Degree of Doctor of Archaeology, Archaeology, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
- 21.07.2011 - Degree of master of Archaeology, Archaeology, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
- 29.07.2009 - Degree of Bachelor of Humnaities , History, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
Field of scientific interests
Western Transcaucasia in Later Pleistocene-Early Holocene period: stone processing, activities, paleoclimatic environment.
Work experience
- 01.03.2011 - till today Research-worker, LEPL Ajara Museum - Batumi Archaeological Museum
- 14.09.2023 - 14.09.2027 Assistant-Professor, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
Published scientific works
- New insights into the Mesolithic and Neolithic layers of the Darkveti rock shelter in the Imereti Region, Western Georgia
Documenta Praehistorica, 52, 2025, 2-15 (Co-author(s): Chkhatarashvili G., Tskvitinidze N., Tsikaridze N., Davenport J.A., Glascock M.D.) - Interdisciplinary investigation of the Khutsubani site (Western Georgia)
Revista Arheologică, serie nouă, vol. XX, nr. 1,, 2024, 171-183 (Co-author(s): Chkhatarashvili G., Chichinadze M., Glascock M.D., Davenport J.A., Khalvashi M., Aslanishvili L., Rodinadze Sh.) - Reconstructing Neolithic obsidian procurement in Western Georgia through an obsidian characterization study
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 57, 2024, 1-9 (Co-author(s): Chkhatarashvili G., Davenport A.J., Glascock M.D., Khalvashi m., Zoidze T.) -
, 6 (2), 2023, 408-445 (Co-author(s): ) - Emergence of Weaving and Early Human Activities of South-West Georgia (According to newest Studies)
Chronos, 4, 2023, 211-226 (Co-author(s): Chkhatarashvili G., Manko V., Khalvashi M. ) - New Epipalaeolithic sites in the southeastern Black Sea area and a question about the marine network of lunates with bipolar retouched arcs makers
Revista Arheologică, Volume XIX, nr. 1, 2023, 5-29 (Co-author(s): Hülya Çalışkan Akgül, Valery Manko, Didem Turan, Guram Chkhatarashvili, Sinan Kılıç) - Newly discovered culture centers related to the metallurgy of non-ferrous metals in Eurasia (Express information)
Bulletin of Georgian Academy of Science, 17, № 3, 2023, 153-159 (Co-author(s): Kakhidze A., Kakhidze E., Chkhatarashvili G.) - Trapezes with dorsal flat invasive retouching the indicator of Neolithic network formation
Tyragetia, serie noua, XVII (XXXII), № 1 , 2023, 103-111 (Co-author(s): Manko V., Chkhatarashvili G.) - On the border of two worlds: eastern and western impulses in the process of neolithization of Eastern Europe
In: More lasting than Bronze (ed. V.A.Dergachev), 1, 2023, 101-118 (Co-author(s): Manko V., Chkhatarashvili G.) - Kvirike: The Early Holocene Site in Western Georgia
Revista Arheologică, serie nouă, XVIII, nr.2, 2022, 5-16 (Co-author(s): Manko V., Chkhatarashvili G.) - Transcaucasia and Neolithic of South of Eastern Europe
Archaeology, 2, 2022, 19-52 (Co-author(s): Manko V., Chkhatarashvili G.) - Colhis - theancient centerof iron metallurgy
Tyragetia, serie nouă, XVI [XXXI], N. 1, 2022, 171-178 (Co-author(s): Khakhutaishvili N., Papuashvili R., Chkhatarashvili G.) - Obsidian at Kobuleti (Western Georgia): Evidencefor early human contact in Western Transcaucasia during the Early Holocene
Archaeological Reseacrh in Asia, 29, 2022, 1-8 (Co-author(s): Chkhatarashvili G., Glascock M. ) - Sosruko site: problems of interpretation of stone complexes
Camera Praehistorica, 2 (7), 2021, 36-57 (Co-author(s): Manko V., Chkhatarashvili G.)
Monograph
- Colhis - ancient center of iron metalurgy (Historical-Interdisciplinary research)
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, ISBN 978-9941-488-87-0, 2024, (Co-author(s): Nana Khakhutaishvili, Revaz Papuashvili, Guram Chkhatarashvili, Emzar Kakhidze, Givi Inanishvili, Nodar Poporadze, Nataniel Erb-Satullo, Brian Gilmour)
Participation in scientific events
- The Results of the Archaeological Research
Conducted at the Early Holocene Dwelling in the Kobuleti Village in 2023
Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Amiran Kakhidze and Prof. Shota Mamuladze, Cultural Heritage Protection Agency of Ajara, 2024, Batumi, Georgia (Co-author(s): Guram Chkhatarashvili, Rezo Takidze, Valery Manko) -
(Co-author(s): Guram Chkhatarashvili) - Indicators of cultural contacts with the Near and Middle East population in the Neolithic of the South Caucasus (7th-6th millennium BC)
CONFERINŢA ŞTIINŢIFICĂ - ISTORIE - ARHEOLOGIE - MUZEOLOGIE (ediţia a XXXII-a), A MUZEULUI NAŢIONAL DE ISTORIE A MOLDOVEI, 2022, Chishinau, Moldova (Co-author(s): Valery Manko, Guram Chkhatarashvili)
Research grant projects
Ongoing/Completed
- 10.2024 - 05.2025 -
, project staff - 08.2024 - 08.2026 -
, project staff - 06.2023 - 06.2024 - Transporting of obsidian and Homo Sapiens Mobility in Western Transcaucasia in the Early Holocene
Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia, project manager - 02.2023 - 12.2023 - The living environment of the ancient hunter-gatherers of Khutsubani and their mobility in the early Holocene period (X-VII millenia BC)
Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, project manager - 07.2022 - 02.2023 - Life in Stone Age
Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia , project manager
Other scientific activities
- Master thesis review, 2025
- Supervision of bachelor theses, 2024
- Conducting scientific seminars, 2024
- Involvement of students in scientific conferences, 2023
- Involvement of students in scientific projects, 2023
- Participation in the organization of scientific events, 2022
- Other activity, 2022
- Involvement in international grant projects, 2022
- Reviewing a scientific paper, 2021
- Supervision of master`s theses, 2021
- Doctoral thesis review, 2021
Internship, trainings, scholarship/award
Internship
- 11.12.2023 - 15.12.2023 Information (altmetric) services in science, Association for Science
- 18.12.2023 ,,Write a Grant projec - strategy and technique", Inovation Educational Center
