Abanoskhevi () is a village in Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, Georgia. It is part of the Lapanaantkari commune, Dusheti municipality, with a population of 399, mostly (99%) ethnic Georgians, as of the 2014 census.Ethnic composition of Georgia 2014
Abanoskhevi is located on both banks of the Abanoskhevi river, a left tributary of the Aragvi, at 580 meters above sea level, 13 km southeast of the town of Dusheti.
The earliest archaeologically-confirmed traces of human habitation in the area date to the Neolithic era, 4,000 BC.Nazarova, A.F.; Alkhutov, S.M. (2008), "Anthropology and Genetics of the Caucasus Peoples and the Problem of the Origin of the Caucasoids", p. 56. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, Vol. 66, No. 1.
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