Dimitri Badrisha Jachvlian

Dima has been involved in numerous archaeological projects and expeditions since 2006. An alumnus of Tbilisi State University (BA in Archaeology, 2010) and Leiden University (MA in Near Eastern Archaeology, 2015) he has been working as a research associate at the Georgian National Museum’s Institute of Archaeology since 2016 when became involved with the project GRAPE and then ARKK (Archaeological Research in Kvemo Kartli). Within the ARKK he has been co-directing excavations at the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age megalithic settlement site of Dmanisis Gora since 2018.

Apart from archaeology he has been involved in co-organizing and guiding off-road cross-country adventure 4x4 rallies and overlanding expeditions in Georgia, Armenia and Oman.