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In Memory of Gocha Revazovich Tsetskhladze
Authors: Sergei L. Dudarev, Vladimir R. Erlikh
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The article is dedicated to the memory of a scientist with wide international fame, a major organizer of science, archaeologist and historian, professor at Oxford University Gocha Tsetskhladze. A native of Georgia, G. Tsetskhladze was educated in Soviet times at the University of Kharkov (Ukrainian SSR), and then studied at the graduate school of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1988, among the best Soviet graduate students, he was sent to the University of Oxford (Great Britain), where he subsequently defended his dissertation for the degree of DPhil in Classical Archeology on the topic “Cultural History of Colchis (6th–2nd Centuries BC)” under the guidance of Sir John Boardman. He worked at the universities of London, Melbourne, Oxford, taught as a visiting professor at the universities of Copenhagen, British Columbia (Vancouver), Pennsylvania, Texas, Chicago, Tbilisi, Moscow (RSHU). He made presentations at various scientific European and world conferences and congresses, advised applicants for scientific degrees. Possessing wide competence and scientific authority, G.R. Tsetskhladze was a member of the editorial boards of a number of scientific journals, including “Slavery: theory and practice”, the organizing committees of the conference, etc. He worked constantly as a field archaeologist, taking part in excavations of ancient monuments in Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, was the director of an archaeological expedition in Pessinunte (Turkey).
He was the organizer of important scientific platforms for discussing materials and problems of antiquity for many scientists of the world – the journal “Ancient West & East”, as well as the International Congress on Black Sea Antiquties (Pontic Congress). Their main task is to explore the ancient civilization in its contact with the barbarian periphery in the east and west of the ecumene – from Gibraltar to Phasis. The journal and the congress are very representative both geographically and scientifically, bringing together the most competent experts in the field of antiquity from around the world, which is the best memory of the ascetic activity of the deceased G.R. Tsetskhladze.