Les assemblages lithiques du Pale´olithique moyen de Georgie Lithic assemblages of Middle Palaeolithic from Georgia

Pleurdeau, David and Touchabramichvili, Nikolas and Nioradze, Medea and de Lumley, Henry and Lordkipanidze , David (2007) Les assemblages lithiques du Pale´olithique moyen de Georgie Lithic assemblages of Middle Palaeolithic from Georgia. L’anthropologie , 111 (5). pp. 400-431. ISSN 0003-5521

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Abstract

La Georgie demeure un carrefour geographique privilegie qui, tout au long du Quaternaire, a ete le temoin du passage de populations. En particulier, les vestiges laisses par les hommes du Paleolithique moyen pendant la fin du Pleistocene moyen et le debut du Pleistocene superieur sont autant de temoignages des convergences et des contacts culturels dans la region. De nombreux sites ont permis la mise au jour d’assemblages lithiques aux caracteristiques techniques disparates, mais souvent basees sur un socle cognitif commun. La presente analyse est, par une approche technologique descriptive des industries lithiques des principaux sites du Paleolithique moyen de Georgie, le premier volet d’une etude plus large qui permettra, a`terme, d’integrer la Georgie dans le jeu des influences techniques et culturelles regionales, en vue d’apprehender la specificite´ de la Transcaucasie dans toutes ces variantes locales. Georgia is a privileged geographical crossroads, which has been the passage of human populations throughout Quaternary. In particular, the vestiges left by the men of the Middle Paleolithic during the end of the Middle Pleistocene and the beginning of Upper Pleistocene show the culturalconvergences and contacts,which could have been occurred in the area. Many sites allowed the discovery of lithic assemblages with distinct typotechnological characteristics, but often based on a common cognitive and technical base. The present analysis is a descriptive technological approach of lithic industries of the principal sites of the Middle Paleolithic sites of Georgia. It is the first step of a large study, which will allow integrating Georgia in the regional display of the technical and cultural influences, in order to apprehend the specificity of Transcaucasie in all these local alternatives.

Item Type:	Article
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:	03 Apr 2015 08:29
URI:	http://eprints.iliauni.edu.ge/id/eprint/981

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