Some Aspects of Raw Material Processing and Possible Techniques of Dmanisi’s Paleolithic industry: The Result of Typological and Experimental-Technological Studies
This article describes a first attempt to study the technologies of the Dmanisi Paleolithic industry. To reconstruct the complete technological process, a distribution map of the raw material used by the Dmanisi hominids was created, then raw materials for our experimental study were col-lected from the same places as were used by Paleolithic hominins. The article discusses the results of the experimental technological studies using amphibolite and tan tuff as a raw material. The original archaeological artifacts are compared with the experimental industry made with the same raw material. Both industries were created by applying the hard hammer techniques.
This article concerns the possible interpretation of a structure discovered on the territory of the Dekhviri open-air archaeological and ethnographical museum (northwest Georgia, Lekhumi region) as an antique-period sepulcher. The context of this structure is archaeological evidence found in the villages Dekhviri and Tskheta and their adjacent territory (I millennium BC, Antique and medieval material).
In 2017, an archaeological team led by R. Isakadze and Sh. Buadze investigating the medieval period in the study area as part of the Lechkhumi (Tskheta-Dekhviri) archaeological expedition (directed by N. Sulava) investigated a stone structure. The excavators interpreted it as a church of the medieval period, but we propose that it is a Late Antique/ early medieval burial sepulcher. The nearby archaeological context supports the proposition that this sepulcher belonged a member of the local elite.
