History, Archaeology, Ethnography
Follow-up of the processes developing in the area under study shows that man’s main need - survival - is the basis for activating all those values which come to the fore in conflict situation. Struggle for survival is connected with the key issue of obtaining recources and, therefore, with definite economic activities, which, as such, turns the right to possessing territories in the motherland into the key value. All other values follow it on the hierarchic scale and are regarded exclusively in relation to it.
“Motherland” becomes the most important, or even the core value in securing the necessary conditions for the very existence of the population; in other words, access to the resources available on the territory of the native land and control over these resources become virtually important for every ethnic group. Other values come into play as means of realization or preservation of main value, and consequently are secondary to this dominant main value.
Iv. Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnography