Akhshtyrskaya Cave
Cueva de Ajshtir
- Date
- 1903 · confidence high
- Place
- Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia
- Credited to
- Édouard-Alfred Martel
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Prehistoric cave in the western Caucasus, near Sochi (Russia), discovered in September 1903 by French speleologist Édouard-Alfred Martel and local resident Gabriel Revinko; an archaeological site relevant to the region's Palaeolithic.
What it led to
- Later excavations on Palaeolithic human occupation of the Caucasus
- Contribution to Martel's development of scientific speleology
- Recognition of the prehistoric heritage of the Sochi region