52 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. IIO 



Open-Air Sites in the Caucasus 2* 



202. Dajnari. — Several Upper Paleolithic implements were found 

 by A. N. Kalandadze in 1926 on the top of the uplands next to the 

 outlet of the red Turonian flint, near this village 3 kilometers from 

 Lapchkhuti. 



203. Liia. — Traces of an Upper Paleolithic site were located dur- 

 ing 1936 by A. N. Kalandadze on the ancient terrace of the Ingur 

 River, 1.5 kilometers from the Zugdidi-Dzhvari highway. Near the 

 cemetery, at a depth of o.8-toi.2 m., were flint nuclei, scrapers, burins, 

 and laminae. The site was destroyed during the construction of this 

 highway. 



204. Odishi. — This Upper Paleolithic site, which lies in this village 

 in the Zugdidi Raion, was discovered by A. N. Kalandadze during 

 1936. A large quantity of flint implements including scrapers, burins, 

 nuclei, laminae, and geometric blades were found. In addition, some 

 Neolithic implements such as arrowheads and grinding stones were 

 unearthed in the unplowed part of the small plateau which goes down 

 to the valley of the Dzhumi River. On the Zugdidi-Odishi highway 

 in the vicinity of the Odishi Cooperative were found a few patinated 

 flint tools. 



205. Riikhi II. — Traces of an Upper Paleolithic site were dis- 

 covered by A. N. Kalandadze in 1936 near the school of this village, 

 6 kilometers from Zugdidi. The nuclear burins, elaborate scrapers, 

 laminae with incisions, knife-shaped tablets, and three points covered 

 with milky patina were accumulated on the surface. 



206. Supsa-Shroma. — Traces of this Paleolithic site were dis- 

 covered by A. N. Kalandadze on the Supsa-Shroma Highway in 

 1936. Here were found flakes and laminae ; in front of the school near 

 Dzharbenadze on the slope near the highway were two scrapers and 

 laminae. At Motsviari on the right bank of the Sefa River flakes 

 were collected. 



207. Kheti. — Flint tools were found on the slopes of Urta Moun- 

 tain by A. N. Kalandadze in 1936. Animal bones, fragments of a 

 human calvarium, and several flint flakes were found on the small 

 elevation. A large, deeply patined flake was collected at the foot of 

 this slope opposite the former Latariia Estate. More to the west, in 

 the escarpment of the brook in situ were two laminae. Traces of the 

 Upper Paleolithic site can also be found on the left bank of the Munchii 

 River, where the slope of Urta Mountain merges with the Kolkhida 

 Valley near the railroad. 



2* Mingrelia (Nos. 202-208), Abkhazia (Nos. 209-214), and Sochi Raion 

 (Nos. 215-216). 



