Geomorphology and Archaeosismicity in Transcaucasia (GeoArt)

In Georgia:

• Reconstruction of the shifting/Eastern migration of the Shulaveri River bed, a tributary of the Kura River due to climate, base level changes, and tectonic activity.
• Impact of environmental changes (climate-tectonic) on Neolithic societies and first evidence of the earliest ever recorded water management linked to the 8.2Ka Rapid Climate Change (about 2000 years prior to currently published results).

In Armenia:

• Dating of the Vedi travertine, providing information on the Arax valley and the Yerevan faults activity during the Quaternary and its possible threat to the Armenian capital city located in its vicinity.
• Reconstruction of climate (palynology) and tectonic activity of the Kalavan area from the Upper Pleistocene to nowadays in connection with human occupation since the middle Palaeolithic.

Impact zoning of the main regional forcings (climate, base level changes, tectonic) in the geomorphic response of the Arax and the Kura Valleys across Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan (the area of influence of the Caspian Sea level on river morphology lies to the right side of the red dotted line).