Kobuleti site

Abstract

In the 1970–1980s the fieldwork in the Kobuleti Village revealed more than 30.000 artefacts associated with the Early Neolithic period. However, recent fieldwork in Kobuleti, carried out by the authors, demonstrated that the cultural layers of the site belong to the Early Holocene period. The stone industry of the site has indicated the use of blank removal. The conic and bullet shaped cores were used in order to get bladelets and microblades. The complex of flint and obsidian tools consists of numerous retouched blades, bladelets and microblades, burins, and chisels. There are series of bladelets and microblades with abrupt retouch. Generally speaking, the typology of the complex indicates that the site was used as a temporary hunting camp.

Spatial organisation within the earliest evidence of post-built structures in Britain

“…In doing so, a site could be assigned a ‘type’; for example, butchery, wood working and hunting activities would lead to a categorisation of a home base [ 15 – 20 ]. In the absence of microwear data, more recent studies of Mesolithic settlements continue to implement this approach of inferring activity areas from tool types and assigning site function on this basis [ 18 , 21 – 25 ]. This has led to broad categorisations of Mesolithic structures, such as home base or hunting camp, which lack an understanding of the variation in the range of tasks that may have been undertaken within these spaces.…”