Revisiting The Shipping And Navigation In The Caucasus In The Ancient Times

The issue of shipping and navigation in the Caucasus is understudied, as well these skills among peoples Caucasus. Meanwhile, it known, a huge land bridge, surrounded on two sides by three seas – Black, Azov Caspian seas. In addition, large water flows occur Caucasus, forming rather river systems. South are Kura Rioni rivers, North Terek Kuban. Therefore, difficult to imagine that Caucasian peoples, who lived shores rivers from ancient times, did not learn use their natural resources advantages provided waterways, which only more economical, but sometimes safer than roads. According available data, has been known inhabitants since times. well-known Norwegian explorer traveler Thor Heyerdahl paid special attention drawings boats Gobustan. him, Gobustan with curved bottom, probably reed, have no analogues world. Based comparison petroglyphs those Gobustan, he concluded they were drawn “by same hand, at different times”. He proposed hypothesis about existence times some analogue waterway "from Varangians Greeks", connecting Scandinavia.