Tag Archive for 'Dzudzuana Cave'

Five pebbles from Dzudzuana Cave, Georgia. Image credit: Longo et al., doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321262.

Archaeologists Find Traces of Indigo Dye on 34,000-Year-Old Grinding Tools from Georgia

Sep 2, 2025 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and elsewhere have found traces of indigotin — a blue secondary compound, also known as...

Gelabert et al. retrieved human and mammalian nuclear and mitochondrial environmental shotgun genomes from a 25,000-year-old sediment sample from Satsurblia Cave in Georgia. Image credit: Anna Belfer-Cohen.

25,000-Year-Old Human and Animal DNA Found in Georgian Cave

Jul 14, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has retrieved and analyzed nuclear and mitochondrial environmental DNA of humans, wolfs (Canis lupus), and bisons (Bison...