In June 2006, Professor Belinda H. Monahan of Northwestern University conducted a workshop on contemporary approaches to faunal analysis in Tbilisi, Georgia. Sponsored by ARISC, the workshop was open to scholars in the South Caucasus. Dr. Monahan led the workshop prior to her participation in excavations in Armenia, directed by Professor Adam T. Smith of the University of Chicago and Dr. Ruben Badalyan of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Academy of Sciences, Armenia.

Figure 1. At the head of the table are Maia Beksianishvili, conference coordinator and translator, Dr. Monahan, and Dr. David Lordkipanidze, Director of the Georgian State Museum, where the workshop was held.

Figure 2. Maia Beksianishvili and Belinda Monahan at work.

Figure 3. Workshop discussion. Facing camera is Mikheil Abramishivili, who organized Dr. Monahan's visit to Tbilisi. Note that the site being discussed (on screen) is Gegharot, in Armenia.

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