Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Ethnobotany of the Caucasus – Georgia

  • Reference work entry
  • First Online:
Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

Part of the book series: European Ethnobotany ((EUROETH))

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 299.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 329.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Adler DS, Bar-Oz G. Seasonal patterns of prey acquisition during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the southern Caucasus. In: Hublin JJ, Richards M, editors. The evolution of hominid diets: integrating approaches to the study of Palaeolithic subsistence. Leipzig: Springer; 2009. p. 127–140.

    Google Scholar 

  • Akhalkatsi M. Conservation and sustainable use of crop wild relatives in Samtskhe-Javakheti. Final report. Tbilisi: Elkana; 2009.

    Google Scholar 

  • Akhalkatsi M, Ekhvaia J, Mosulishvili M, Nakhutsrishvili G, Abdaladze O, Batsatsashvili K. Reasons and processes leading to the erosion of crop genetic diversity in mountainous regions of Georgia. Mt Res Dev. 2010;30(3):304–10.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Akhalkatsi M, Ekhvaia J. Asanidze Z. Diversity and genetic erosion of ancient crops and wild relatives of agricultural cultivars for food: implications for nature conservation in Georgia (Caucasus). In: Tiefenbacher J, editor. Perspectives on nature conservation – patterns, pressures and prospects. Zagreb: InTech; 2012.

    Google Scholar 

  • Badr A, Müller K, Schäfer-Pregl R, El Rabey H, Effgen S, Ibrahim HH, Pozzi C, Rohde W, Salamini F. On the origin and domestication history of barley (Hordeum vulgare). Mol Biol Evol. 2000;17(4):499–510.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bedoshvili D. National report on the State of Plant Genetic Resources for food and agriculture in Georgia. 2008. http://www.pgrfa.org/gpa/geo/GeorgianreportonStateofPGRSep29,2008.pdf.

  • Bussmann RW, Paniagua-Zambrana NY, Sikharulidze S, Kikvidze Z, Kikodze D, Jinjikhadze T, Shanshiashvili T, Chelidze D, Batsatsashvili K, Bakanidze N. Wine, Beer, Snuff, Medicine and loss of diversity – ethnobotanical travels in the Georgian Caucasus. Ethnobot Res Appl. 2014;12:237–313.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bussmann RW, Paniagua Zambrana NY, Sikharulidze S, Kikvidze Z, Kikodze D, Tchelidze D, Khutsishvili M, Batsatsashvili K, Hart RE. A comparative ethnobotany of Khevsureti, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Tusheti, Svaneti, and Racha-Lechkhumi, Republic of Georgia (Sakartvelo), Caucasus. J Ehnobiol Ethnomed. 2016a;12:43. doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0110-2.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bussmann RW, Paniagua Zambrana NY, Sikharulidze S, Kikvidze Z, Kikodze D, Tchelidze D, Batsatsashvili K, Hart RE. Medicinal and food plants of Svaneti and Lechkhumi, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Med Aromat Plants. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants 2017b;5:266, doi:10.4172/2167-0412.1000266.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bussmann RW, Paniagua Zambrana NY, Sikharulidze S, Kikvidze Z, Kikodze D, Tchelidze D, Khutsishvili M, Batsatsashvili K, Hart RE, Pieroni A. Your poison in my pie – the use of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) leaves in Sakartvelo, Georgia (Caucasus) and Gollobordo, Eastern Albania. Econ Bot. 2016c;70(4):331–337.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bussmann RW, Paniagua Zambrana NY, Sikharulidze S, Kikvidze Z, Kikodze D, Tchelidze D, Batsatsashvili K, Hart RE. Plants in the spa – the medicinal plant market of Borjomi, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Indian J Tradit Knowl. 2017a;16(1):25–34.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bussmann RW, Paniagua Zambrana NY, Sikharulidze S, Kikvidze Z, Kikodze D, Tchelidze D, Batsatsashvili K, Hart RE. Ethnobotany of Samtskhe-Javakheti, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Indian J Tradit Knowl. 2017b;16(1):7–24.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bussmann RW, Paniagua Zambrana NY, Sikharulidze S, Kikvidze Z, Kikodze D, Tchelidze D, Khutsishvili M, Batsatsashvili K, Hart RE. Medicinal and food plants of Tusheti, Khevsureti and Pshavi, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Act Soc Bot Pol 2017c;86(2), 3517. https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp.3517

  • Chikovani N, Svanidze T. Checklist of bryophyte species of Georgia. Braun-Blanqueta. 2004;34.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dekaprelevich L, Menabde V. Study of cereal cultivars in Georgia. I. Racha. Sci Papers Appl Sect Tbilisi Bot Garden. 1929;6(2):219–52 (In Russian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Dmitrieva AA. Key of the plants of Adjara. Tbilisi: Metsniereba; 1990.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dolukhanov AG. First vegetation of Georgia. Tbilisi: Universal; 2010.

    Google Scholar 

  • Finlayson C. Biogeography and evolution of the genus Homo. Trends Ecol Evol. 2005;20(8):457–63.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Flora of Georgia. vols. 1–8. Tbilisi: Metsniereba; 1941–1952.

    Google Scholar 

  • Flora of Georgia. vols. 1–16. Tbilisi: Metsniereba; 1971–2011.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gabunia L, Vekua AA. Plio-Pleistocene hominid from Dmanisi, East Georgia, Caucasus. Nature. 1995;373(6514):509–12.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Gabunia L, Vekua A, Swisher CC, Ferring R, Justus A, Nioradze M, Ponce de Leon M, Tappen M, Tvalchrelidze M, Zollikofer C. Earliest Pleistocene hominid cranial remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: taxonomy, geological setting, and age. Science. 2000;288(5578):85–9.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gagnidze R. Vascular plants of Georgia. A nomenclatural checklist. Tbilisi: Metsniereba; 2005.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gulisashvili V. Dendroflora of the Caucasus. Tbilisi: Metsniereba; 1959–1970.

    Google Scholar 

  • Javakhishvili I. Economic history of Georgia. 2nd ed. vol. 5. Tbilisi: Metsniereba; 1987 (In Georgian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Ketskhoveli N. Materials on zonal distribution of cultivated plants in the Greater Caucasus. Tbilisi: Agricultural National Committee Press; 1928 (In Georgian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Ketskhoveli N. Zones of cultivated plants in Georgia. Tbilisi: Georgian Academy of Sciences Press; 1957 (In Georgian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Ketskhoveli N. Plant cover of Georgia. Tbilisi: Metsniereba; 1960.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ketskhoveli N, Ramishvili M, Tabidze D. Amphelography of Georgia. Tbilisi: Georgian Academy of Sciences Press; 1960 (In Georgian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Kolakovski AA. The Flora of Abkhazia. vols. I–IV. Tbilisi: Metsniereba; 1980–1986.

    Google Scholar 

  • Makashvili A. Flora of Tbilisi and environs. Tbilisi: Metsniereba; 1952–1953.

    Google Scholar 

  • McGovern PE. Ancient wine: the search for the origins of viniculture. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2003.

    Google Scholar 

  • Melikishvili G, editor. 1970. Historical essays of Georgia. Tbilisi: Metsniereba; 1970 (In Georgian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Menabde V. Wheats of Georgia. Tbilisi: Georgian Academy of Sciences Press; 1948 (In Russian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Menabde V. Barleys of Georgia. Tbilisi: Georgian Academy of Sciences Press; 1938 (In Georgian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Nakhutsrishvili G. The vegetation of Georgia (Caucasus). Braun-Blanquetia. 1999;15:1–74.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nakhutsrishvili G. The vegetation of Georgia (South Caucasus). Stuttgart: Springer; 2012.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nakhutsrishvili G, Akhalkatsi M, Abdaladze O. Main threats to the mountain biodiversity in Georgia (the Caucasus). Mountain Forum Bull. 2009;9(2):18–9.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pistrick K, Akhalkatsi M, Girgvliani T, Shanshiashvili T. Collecting plant genetic resources in Upper Svaneti (Georgia, Caucasus Mountains). J Agric Rural Dev Trop Subtrop. 2009;Suppl 92:127–135.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ramishvili R. Wild grape of the South Caucasus. Tbilisi: Ganatleba; 1988 (In Russian).

    Google Scholar 

  • Schatz G, Shulkina T, Nakhutsrishvili G, Batsatsashvili K, Tamanyan K, Ali-zade V, Kikodze D, Geltman D, Ekim T. Development of Plant Red List Assessments for the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot. In: Zazanashvili N, Mallon D, editors. Status and protection of globally threatened species in the Caucasus. USA: Contour; 2009. p. 188–192.

    Google Scholar 

  • This P, Lacombe T, Thomas MR. Historical origins and genetic diversity of wine grapes. Trends Genet. 2006;22(9):511–9.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zhizhizlashvili K, Berishvili T. Study of cultivated plants in Upper Svaneti. Bull Georgian Acad Sci. 1980;100(2):417–9 (In Georgian).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  2. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botanikuri St. 1, 0105, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  3. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, 5, Cholokasvili Ave., 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  4. Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

Authors
  1. Rainer W. Bussmann
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ketevan Batsatsashvili
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Zaal Kikvidze
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Manana Khutsishvili
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Inesa Maisaia
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Shalva Sikharulidze
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. David Tchelidze
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Rainer W. Bussmann .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG

About this entry

Cite this entry

Bussmann, R.W. et al. (2017). Ethnobotany of the Caucasus – Georgia. In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_19

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation