South-East Black Sea coast in Early Holocene period (according to interdisciplinary archaeological investigations in Kobuleti site)

Guram Chkhatarashvili; Valery Manko; Amiran Kakhidze; Ketevan Esakiya; Maia Chichinadze; Marianna Kulkova; Mikhail Streltcov

doi:10.23858/SA/72.2020.2.2261

Published: 2020-12-16

Vol. 72 No. 2 (2020)

South-East Black Sea coast in Early Holocene period (according to interdisciplinary archaeological investigations in Kobuleti site)

Guram Chkhatarashvili , Valery Manko , Amiran Kakhidze , Ketevan Esakiya , Maia Chichinadze , Marianna Kulkova , Mikhail Streltcov

Sprawozdania Archeologiczne

Section: Field Survey and Materials

https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/72.2020.2.2261

Abstract

The paper presents the results of interdisciplinary research carried out at the Kobuleti Early Holocene site. Typological and use-wear analyses of stone artifacts helped to define the main branch of the economy of humans at the site. 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 (¹⁴C) represents an innovation conducted in the study of the Stone Age in Ajara.

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Kobuleti, Artifacts, Interdisciplinary investigations, Early Holocene

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Chkhatarashvili, G., Manko, V., Kakhidze, A., Esakiya, K., Chichinadze, M., Kulkova, M., & Streltcov, M. (2020). South-East Black Sea coast in Early Holocene period (according to interdisciplinary archaeological investigations in Kobuleti site). Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 72(2). https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/72.2020.2.2261

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