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Le Bourdonnec, François-Xavier and Nomade, Sébastien and Poupeau, Gérard and Guillou, Hervé and Tushabramishvili, Nikoloz and Moncel, Marie-Hélène and Pleurdeau, David and Agapishvili, Tamar and Voinchet, Pierre and Mgeladze, Ana and Lordkipanidze, David (2012) Multiple origins of Bondi Cave and Ortvale Klde (NW Georgia) obsidians and human mobility in Transcaucasia during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science, 29 (5). 1317 -1330. ISSN 0305-4403
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Abstract
Using PIXE four types of elemental compositions were found among obsidian artefacts from the Bondi Cave and Ortvale Klde, Middle to Upper Palaeolithic sites in NW Georgia. One of those types corresponds to obsidians from the Chikiani source, whose compositions were determined with a very good agreement by PIXE and ICP-AES/MS. The composition of Chikiani obsidians is remarkably constant despite KeAr and 39Ar/40 Ar extrusion ages from ca 2.4 and 2.8 Ma. The compositions of two other groups of obsidian artefacts are similar to source materials from eastern Anatolia and Armenia, in particular Ikisdere, Sarikamis, Gutansar, and Hatis. Obsidian is only a minority component in the lithic assemblages at the Bondi Cave and Ortvale Klde. Both Neanderthal and Modern Human populations used obsidian in particular from Chikiani. Considering that the shortest walking distance to this nearest source is at minimum of about 180 km, and to other potential sources of more than 350 km it is suggested that this material reached these two sites mostly, if not exclusively, by a series of‘down the line’ exchanges
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia |
| Divisions: | Faculties/Schools > School of Natural Sciences and Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Prof. Dr. Nikoloz Tushabramishvili |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2014 16:38 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2016 12:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/id/eprint/978 |
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