The 2105 excavation season of the "Georgian-Italian Shida Kartli Archaeological Project" was very productive in all respects: not only were all the main objectives of the excavation reached, but some unexpected important discoveries were also made. In particular: 1) the Kura-Araxes levels in Field B yielded a portion of a large building in which a zoomorphic ritual vessel and fragments of two additional ones were recovered and, 2) both stratigraphical soundings yielded, for the first time in the Shida Kartli region, evidence of occupation of the site during the Middle Bronze period.
The aim of the first three seasons of work at the site (the recovery of the complete sequence of pre-classical occupation of the Aradetis Orgora Main Mound) can be considered as accomplished through the completion of the two stratigraphic soundings (Field A and B).
Interdisciplinary work by different specialists allowed to collect and process a huge amount of data concerning the ancient occupation of the Aradetis Orgora territory and its evolution in the course of time, by adding new fields of investigation (experimental archaeology, analysis of the ancient human remains, of the malacological data, etc.) to those already practiced in the course of the previous seasons.
Finally, the continuing investigation of the Late Hellenistic/early Imperial palace this year was especially focused on gaining a better knowledge of the building materials and of their state of preservation under the control of an architect and an expert restorer, with the aim of avoiding further damage to the very fragile structure of the walls and of planning a future intervention of preservation.