TY - JOUR
T1 - Dzudzuana
T2 - An upper palaeolithic cave site in the caucasus foothills (Georgia)
AU - Bar-Yosef, Ofer
AU - Belfer-Cohen, Anna
AU - Mesheviliani, Tengiz
AU - Jakeli, Nino
AU - Bar-Oz, Guy
AU - Boaretto, Elisabetta
AU - Goldberg, Paul
AU - Kvavadze, Eliso
AU - Matskevich, Zinovi
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - The report announces the important radiocarbon-dated sequence recently obtained at Dzudzuana Cave in the southern Caucasus foothills. The first occupants here were modern humans, in c. 34.5-32.2 ka cal BP, and comparison with dated sequences on the northern slope of the Caucasus suggests that their arrival was rapid and widespread. The rich, well-dated assemblages of lithics, bone tools and a few art objects, coloured fibres, pollen and animal remains deposited at Dzudzuana through 20 millennia provide an invaluable point of reference for numerous other sites previously excavated in western Georgia. Detailed information has been placed in a supplementary excavation report online. The data support the significance of these excavations for a better understanding of modern human dispersals.
AB - The report announces the important radiocarbon-dated sequence recently obtained at Dzudzuana Cave in the southern Caucasus foothills. The first occupants here were modern humans, in c. 34.5-32.2 ka cal BP, and comparison with dated sequences on the northern slope of the Caucasus suggests that their arrival was rapid and widespread. The rich, well-dated assemblages of lithics, bone tools and a few art objects, coloured fibres, pollen and animal remains deposited at Dzudzuana through 20 millennia provide an invaluable point of reference for numerous other sites previously excavated in western Georgia. Detailed information has been placed in a supplementary excavation report online. The data support the significance of these excavations for a better understanding of modern human dispersals.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0003598X0006779X
DO - 10.1017/S0003598X0006779X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79957652689
SN - 0003-598X
VL - 85
SP - 331
EP - 349
JO - Antiquity
JF - Antiquity
IS - 328
ER -