Tsona Cave

Tsona Cave is an archaeological site in Georgia. The site is close to the Bouba-Kakheri pass at south of the Caucasus range.[1] Tsona was discovered by A. Kalandadze in 1958. It was excavated by Kalandadze, Tushabramishvili and later by Z. Kikodze.[2]

The cave is located at 2100 m above sea level (a.s.l.) and therefore it is one of the highest archaeological cave sites in the country. Excavations at the site revealed Lower and Middle Paleolithic archaeological remains.[3]

References

Tushabramishvili, D.M., 1978. Arkheologicheskie panyatniki Tsutskhvatskogo mnogoetajnogo peshernogo kompleska. Metsniereba, Tbilisi.
Kalandadze, A. N., and Tushabramishvili, D. M. (1978). Tsonskaya peshera (Tconskaya cave).In Arkheologiya i paleogeograﬁya rannego paleolita Krima i Kavkaza, Moscow, pp. 96– 100.
Mgeladze, A. (2008). Premières phases de peuplement dans le Caucase: étude des assemblages lithiques des sites géorgiens de Dmanissi (Pleistocène inférieur), de Koudaro I et de Tsona (Pleistocène moyen) (Doctoral dissertation, Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle).

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[1] Tushabramishvili, D.M., 1978. Arkheologicheskie panyatniki Tsutskhvatskogo mnogoetajnogo peshernogo kompleska. Metsniereba, Tbilisi.

[2] Kalandadze, A. N., and Tushabramishvili, D. M. (1978). Tsonskaya peshera (Tconskaya cave).In Arkheologiya i paleogeograﬁya rannego paleolita Krima i Kavkaza, Moscow, pp. 96– 100.

[3] Mgeladze, A. (2008). Premières phases de peuplement dans le Caucase: étude des assemblages lithiques des sites géorgiens de Dmanissi (Pleistocène inférieur), de Koudaro I et de Tsona (Pleistocène moyen) (Doctoral dissertation, Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle).