Front matter of the volume 38

The famous Georgian archaeologist Shota Chartolani led groups of archaeological expeditions in Svaneti for decades. They not only explored many archaeological sites but also carried out permanent excavations of many of them, which were later successfully filtered into the scientific literature.

Das hethitische Bestattungsritual dauerte 13 oder 14 Tage, wobei jeden Tag andere Zeremonien stattfanden. Das königliche Bestattungsritual ist heute als šalliš waštaiš-Ritual bekannt.

The study of some geographic names in North Ossetia, which contain Georgian anthroponyms, has shown, that the toponymical material complements the ethnographic data and provides important information regarding the origin of families, their surnames, geographical localization, and migration processes. The eponymous surnames revealed through the toponymy of Dvaleti, together with other toponymic material, may strengthen the hypothesis that before the migration of the Iranian-speaking tribes, the population of Dvaleti had been spoken the Kartvelian language.