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Sakajia Cave Natural Monument, the Glossary

Sakajia Cave Natural Monument (საკაჟიას მღვიმე) is a karst cave located 1.5 km to the north-east from village Godogani, Terjola Municipality in Imereti region of Georgia, 204 meters above sea level.^[1]

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Caves of Georgia (country)
Geography of Imereti
Natural monuments of Georgia (country)
Upper Paleolithic sites in Europe

Apatite

Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ion, respectively, in the crystal.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Bead

A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing.

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Bison

A bison (bison) is a large bovine in the genus Bison (Greek: "wild ox" (bison)) within the tribe Bovini.

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Brown bear

The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America.

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Caspian red deer

The Caspian red deer (Cervus elaphus maral), is one of the easternmost subspecies of red deer that is native to areas between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea such as Crimea, Asia Minor, the Caucasus Mountains region bordering Europe and Asia, and along the Caspian Sea region in Iran.

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Cave bear

The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is a prehistoric species of bear that lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene and became extinct about 24,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum.

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Cro-Magnon

Cro-Magnons or European early modern humans (EEMH) were the first early modern humans (Homo sapiens) to settle in Europe, migrating from western Asia, continuously occupying the continent possibly from as early as 56,800 years ago.

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Deer

A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).

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European bison

The European bison (bison) (Bison bonasus) or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent, the zubr, or sometimes colloquially as the European buffalo, is a European species of bison.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia

The Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia (tr, ქსე) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language, printed in Tbilisi from 1965, the editor in chief of which was Irakli Abashidze.

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Goat

The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.

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Godogani, Imereti

Godogani (გოდოგანი) is a village in Terjola Municipality, Imereti, in west-central Georgia.

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Height above mean sea level

Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Ilia State University

Ilia State University ISU (ილიას სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი) is a public university in Tbilisi, Georgia that was founded in 2006 as a result of a merger of six different academic institutions. Currently, ISU is one of the leading research and educational institutions in Georgia.

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Imereti

Imereti (Georgian: იმერეთი) is a region of Georgia situated in the central-western part of the republic along the middle and upper reaches of the Rioni River.

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Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography

The Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography or N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (Институт этнологии и антропологии им.; abbreviated as ИЭА in Russian and IEA in English) is a Russian institute of research, specializing in ethnographic studies of cultural and physical anthropology.

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Knife

A knife (knives; from Old Norse knifr 'knife, dirk') is a tool or weapon with a cutting edge or blade, usually attached to a handle or hilt.

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Laemostenus

Laemostenus is a genus of ground beetles present on all continents on Earth, except Antarctica.

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Lamella (materials)

A lamella (lamellae) is a small plate or flake, from the Latin, and may also be used to refer to collections of fine sheets of material held adjacent to one another, in a gill-shaped structure, often with fluid in between though sometimes simply a set of 'welded' plates.

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Levallois technique

The Levallois technique is a name given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of stone knapping developed around 250,000 to 300,000 years ago during the Middle Palaeolithic period.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Lynx

A lynx (lynx or lynxes) is any of the four extant species (the Canada lynx, Iberian lynx, Eurasian lynx and the bobcat) within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.

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Mesogastrura

Mesogastrura is a genus of springtails in the family Hypogastruridae.

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Minunthozetes

Minunthozetes is a genus of mites belonging to the family Punctoribatidae.

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Moth

Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies.

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Motsameta also known as Motsameta monastery is a complex of monasteries at the Imereti region, approximately 6 km northeast of the center of Kutaisi, Georgia.

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Mousterian

The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia.

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Neanderthal

Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.

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Obsidian

Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth.

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Paleobotany

Paleobotany, also spelled as palaeobotany, is the branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (paleogeography), and the evolutionary history of plants, with a bearing upon the evolution of life in general.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.

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Paleozoic

The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Panthera spelaea

Panthera spelaea, commonly known as the cave lion (or less commonly as the steppe lion) is an extinct Panthera species native to Eurasia and northwest North America during the Pleistocene epoch.

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Phauloppia

Phauloppia is a genus of mites belonging to the family Oribatulidae.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Rhinoceros

A rhinoceros (rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae; it can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Roe deer

The roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the roe, western roe deer, or European roe, is a species of deer.

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Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (also; 13 October 18215 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Sachet

Although its most usual definition is that listed under "packet" (see link above), a sachet can also mean a small scented cloth bag filled with herbs, potpourri, or aromatic ingredients; or a small porous bag or packet containing a material intended to interact with its atmosphere; for example, desiccants are usually packed in sachets which are then placed in larger packages.

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Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia

The Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia (სიმონ ჯანაშიას სახელობის საქართველოს მუზეუმი), formerly known as the State Museum of History of Georgia, is one of the main history museums in Tbilisi, Georgia, which displays the country's principal archaeological findings.

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Solutional cave

A solutional cave, solution cave, or karst cave is a cave usually formed in the soluble rock limestone.

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South Caucasus

The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and West Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains.

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Stalactite

A stalactite is a mineral formation that hangs from the ceiling of caves, hot springs, or man-made structures such as bridges and mines.

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Terjola

Terjola (თერჯოლა) is a town in Imereti, Georgia, serving as an administrative center of the homonymous district.

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Terjola Municipality

Terjola (თერჯოლის მუნიციპალიტეტი) is a district of Georgia, in the region of Imereti.

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Thrush (bird)

The thrushes are a passerine bird family, Turdidae, with a worldwide distribution.

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Tskaltsitela Gorge Natural Monument

Tskaltsitela Gorge Natural Monument (წყალწითელას ხეობის ბუნების ძეგლი) is a river gorge in western Georgia, in Tkibuli and Terjola municipalities. Sakajia Cave Natural Monument and Tskaltsitela Gorge Natural Monument are geography of Imereti, IUCN Category III and natural monuments of Georgia (country).

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Upper Paleolithic

The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.

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Wild boar

The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakajia_Cave_Natural_Monument

, Thrush (bird), Tskaltsitela Gorge Natural Monument, Upper Paleolithic, Wild boar.

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See also

Caves of Georgia (country)

Geography of Imereti

Natural monuments of Georgia (country)

Upper Paleolithic sites in Europe

References