The result of complex researches on the prehistoric monuments of South-West Georgia
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https://doi.org/10.52340/gmg2023.01.06Keywords:
Prehistory, Ajara, Archaeology, Interdisciplinary investigationAbstract
In this paper we present the results of interdisciplinary archaeological and laboratory investigation carried out at the Kobuleti and Khutsubani Early Holocene sites in Ajara region (Kobuleti municipality). The typological and Use-Wear Analyses of stone artifacts helped to define the main branch of the economy of humans at the sites. Geochemical analysis of obsidian artifacts (by XRF method) helped us to define the mobility pattern of early humans. Palynological studies were conducted to reconstruct the paleoenvironment. The investigated plant spores proved that the climate in the Early Holocene was warm. Definition of an absolute date by means of the radiocarbon method (C14 AMS) represents an innovation conducted in the study of the Stone Age in Ajara.
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