Curriculum vitae
I,
George (Giorgi Leon)
Kavtaradze, was born the 29th of
January 1945 in Tbilisi as the son of Leon Peter Kavtaradze,
professor of mathematics, and his wife, the paintress Lamara Leonidze.
After having finished the high
school in Tbilisi, I studied Orientalistic at the State University of Tbilisi
from 1962 to 1968. From 1969 to 1971 I was an aspirant at the same University
where I held lectures on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East from 1971 to
1973.
From 1973 to 1986 I was a
Scientific employee in the Archaeological Center of Research of the Georgian
Academy of Sciences. From 1986 to 1993 I worked as a Senior Research Fellow (scientific worker), and from 1993 to
1998 as a Leading Fellow.
From 1992 to 1994 I held lectures
at the Orientalistic faculty of the State University of Tbilisi. From 1994 to
1995 I worked in the Department of Archaeology at the State University of
Tbilisi. From 1992-2006 I was in charge as the Director of the House -Museum of
Giorgi Leonidze
in Patardzeuli (Sagarejo).
From 1998 to 2006 I was a Leading
Fellow of the Department of Ancient History in the Ivane Javakhishvili
Institute of the History and Ethnology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
Since October 2006 I have been a
Chief Fellow of the Department of Ancient History in the Ivane Javakhishvili
Institute of the History and Ethnology.
From April 2007 and supposedly
till the January 2008 a Chief Fellow of the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology
in the Otar Lordkipanidze Institute of Archaeology.
In 1991, 1995/96 and 1999/2000 I had fellowships at
the Kommission fuer Allgemeine und Vergleichende Archaeologie (Bonn) and
Universities of Heidelberg (Institut fuer Ur- und Fruehgeschichte) and
Stuttgart (Historisches Institut). Besides I
was invited to hold papers at the Universities of Tuebingen, Heidelberg,
Stuttgart as well as at the Freie Universitaet (Berlin).
In 1981 I defended my thesis as a
Candidate of sciences (Dr. Phil.) on the topic: „The Chronology of the
Aeneolithic-Bronze Age Cultures of Georgia in the Light of New Data."
In 1992 I defended the thesis as
Doctor of sciences in the history (Dr. Habil.): „Aspects of the Ethnohistory of
the Caucasus and Anatolia and Problems of Chronology and Periodization (VI-I
millennia BC)."
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