Scientists will make a number of studies on Yashtuha camp

Scientists will make a number of studies on Yashtuha camp Archaeologists of the Abkhazian Institute of Humanitarian Studies ANA together with colleagues from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian hold a series of studies using the latest technology of one of the oldest in the world Paleolithic - Yashtuha camp.

As "AP" was told by the head of the department of archeology ABiH ANA Igor Tsvinariya, joint research will begin around May-June. According to the plan will be carried out a number of studies: radiocarbon, geological, hydrographic, geological and climatic, geomorphological, paleontological, and others. Work will be carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Humanities (RFH).

Yashtuha camp is a group of monuments of ancient Paleolithic chronologically related to early Acheulian period, located two kilometers from Sukhum. This is one of the oldest and largest sites of prehistoric man in the whole territory of the former Soviet Union. Approximate age is about 2.5 million years, the area - 70 hectares.