Kvirike: The Early Holocene Site in Western Georgia
Kvirike: The Early Holocene Site in Western Georgia

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the publication of the Early Holocene Kvirike Site in Western Georgia. The site was the ancient hunting camp left by the carriers of Kobuletian Culture (X-VII millennium BC). The authors analyze the typology of artifacts from Kvirike complex, showing that its typology corresponds to the Kukrekian Culture and Donetsk Culture on the territory of Mountainous Crimea, Steppe Ukraine, and Moldova, and M’lefaat Culture on the territory of Iran and Iraq. The similarities of these cultures are best shown in the hunting weapons complexes. The similarities are not only in typology but in the technology of hunting tools production and in methods of their usage were observed. Accordingly, the authors conclude the existence of a zone of material cultures continuity on the territory of the Middle East, Western Georgia, Mountainous Crimea, and Steppe Ukraine. This continuity played an important role in further processes of the Neolithisation of East Europe.

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