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<< Text Pages >> Chikiani Menhir - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Georgia

Submitted by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 09 December 2015  Page Views: 2507

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Chikiani Menhir
Country: Georgia
NOTE: This site is 15.786 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Tsalka
Latitude: 41.504486N  Longitude: 43.888836E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Standing Stone (Menhir) in Georgia

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Re: Obsidian mines and their characterization by Anonymous on Saturday, 08 December 2018
Follow the link to see more about Chikiani (Tikma-dash) Menhir

https://www.facebook.com/Megaliths.of.Georgia/photos/a.561277687648291/561277734314953/?type=3&theater
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Obsidian mines and their characterization by Andy B on Tuesday, 30 May 2017
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A photo of the Chikiani Menhir on page 19 of this newsletter plus some amazing obsidian research.

The Quarry - The e-Newsletter of the SAA’s Prehistoric Quarries & Early Mines Interest Group, #12 May 2017

Obsidian mines and their characterization: New aspects of the exploitation of the
obsidian sources of Mt. Chikiani (Koyun Dağ) in the Lesser Caucasus of Georgia.
Paolo Biagi, Renato Nisbet, Bernard Gratuze

Mt. Chikiani is one of the most important obsidian sources of the Caucasus. According to the available data, its exploitation began at least around the end of the Middle Palaeolithic, and greatly increased mainly between the Early Neolithic and the Iron Age. Previous investigations, and the characterization of several archaeological artefacts, have shown that Chikiani obsidian was traded as far as the eastern coast of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, and that its distribution radius is much wider than that of all the other Caucasian obsidian sources. The data provided by the characterisation of a few dozens of samples collected in 2012 and 2014 have shown that at least three different flows were exploited in prehistoric times.

The surveys carried out in July 2016 have led to the discovery of hundreds of mining pits dug out along the northern and north-eastern slope of the volcano. Also a few knapping areas and workshops have been recovered during the same season. They yielded subconical and prismatic blade cores, a few implements and many debitage and debris flakes. The importance of the Mt. Chikiani archaeological area is marked also by the presence of impressive megalithic monuments, among which is one menhir, and hundreds of tombs (kurgans), which make this region of South Georgia of unique importance for the archaeology of the entire Caucasus.

https://www.academia.edu/33230010/
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