01401nas a2200169   4500000000100000008004100001100001500042700001800057700001400075700001900089700002200108245012700130856015300257300001200410520079600422022001301218                                       d1 aN. Antidze1 aC. Margottini1 aT. Meliva1 aD. Spizzichino1 aM. Vardzelashvili00aImproving the Georgian National Programme for the Preservation of the Rock-Cut Sites Through Interdisciplinary Geosciences  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85149471961&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-031-13810-2_37&partnerID=40&md5=9c1335496a365c969b9eabf8c5187131  a713-7223 aPresent paper summarizes the activities that National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia has put in place over the last ten years. More specifically, all the phases that led to the mapping of the sites to be preserved and the actions taken to protect them are reported and summarized. Among a huge number of tasks, the Agency’s main missions were to lead, coordinate and implement state program for the identification, conservation and rehabilitation, protection and promotion of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, monitor and inventory of tangible and intangible heritage assets throughout the country and provide cultural heritage expertise. This programme is the result of the long process, started in Vardzia Rock-cut Complex and not yet completely developed.  a21979545