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

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

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The South-East Black Sea coast in the Early Holocene period (according to interdisciplinary archaeological investigations at the Kobuleti site) Chkhatarashvili, GuramManko, ValeryKakhidze, AmiranEsakiya, KetevanChichinadze, MaiaKulkova, MariannaStreltcov, Mikhail

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

Sprawozdania Archeologiczne 72 nr 2 (2020)

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

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Kobuleti ; artifacts ; interdisciplinary investigations ; early Holocene

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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