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<abstract xmlns="http://eprints.org/ep2/data/2.0">The varied habitats of Georgia, located adjacent the Black Sea, provided reliable, predictable and&#13;
relatively easily accassible animal and vegetal food resources even under Glacial climatic condi-tions. Abundant natural shelters and good raw material (e.g. radiolarite, flint) enabled Middle&#13;
Paleolithic knappars to easily procure material to produce stone tools.&#13;
The reconstruction of the paleoenvironment and cultural history in this particular region holds great&#13;
importance. It will assist us in testing hypothesis concerning the dispersals of Neandertals, the cul-tures and survival strategies of Middle Paleolithic humans.&#13;
The five Middle Paleolithic cultural variants are recognized in Georgia. The archaeological evi-dence demonstrates similarities with the Middle Paleolithic industries of Anatolia, the Zagros&#13;
region, and the Levant.&#13;
Some Late Acheulean and Musterian assemblages characterized by blades and elongated points, as&#13;
recovered in Djruchula, Koudaro, Tsona, Shvalieti, Samgle Klde and some open sites from Chiatura&#13;
and Ckhinvali regions, resemble the “Tabun D-type” and Hummalian entities in the Levant.&#13;
TL and ESR dates in Tabun and Hayonim caves indicate a time span from 270 ka through 170 ka.&#13;
We suppose that the resemblance between Levant and mentioned region of Caucauses is a result&#13;
of the periodicaly migrations especially from the South to the North. Unfortunatly we have not yet&#13;
the dates from above mentioned sites of Georgia. We suppose that the oldests layers of M.P. sites&#13;
of Georgia are younger ( &lt;150 ka?) than the sites of Levant.&#13;
Two very interesting pieces are discovered in the mousterian layers of the Tsona and Djruchula caves.&#13;
In Tsona is founded the flat shingle (pebble) stone with the cross image. From the II M.P. layer of&#13;
Djruchula we have the piece of argilite with the image of some of the animal (Capra? Elephant?).</abstract>
