Transcaucasia and Neolithic of the South of Eastern Europe

Manko, Valery; Chkhatarashvili, Guram

doi:10.15407/arheologia2022.02.019

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“…"ღარიანი" ქვების არსებობა. უკანასკნელი კვლევების თანახმად (Manko, Chkhatarashvili, 2022;, ადრე ჰოლოცენის ხანის დასაწ-ყისში მლეფაატური კულტურის მატარებელი ტომები იწყებენ მიგრაციას კავკასიის ტერიტორიაზე. აღნიშნული მიგრაციის შე-დეგად, დასავლეთ ამიერკავკასიის ტერიტორიაზე ჩნდება ე.წ.…”

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“…ქობულეთი (გოგიტიძე, 1978; 2008), ანას-ეული I-II (ნებიერიძე, 1972), დარკვეთის ეხის მე-V ფენა (ნებიე-რიძე, 1978), ბავრა, ბავრა 1-2 (გაბუნია, 2001; გაბუნია, წერეთელი 2003), ბავრა-აბლარი (Varoutsikos et. al., 2017), კვირიკე, ხუცუბანი (გოგიტიძე, 1978;Manko, Chkhatarashvili, 2022), სოსრუკო, ფენა M1-M2 (Замятнин, Акритас 1957…”

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The Caucasus and the Middle East in the early Holocene (According to recent archaeological research)

Chkhatarashvili,

Manko,

Khalvashi

2023

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The article provides a comprehensive account of two significant prehistoric archaeological sites located in Adjara - Kobuleti village and Khutsubani, including their history, modern investigations, and findings. The authors highlight that bone remains were not uncovered during the excavation of Stone Age archaeological sites due to the soil'speculiarities. These remains could have shed light on the hunting environment of that era. Stone artifacts provide insight into the lives of ancient hunter-gatherers in our regionThus, a thorough examination of the stone industry is very important. According to this analysis the authors, a fascinating conclusion is drawn regarding the origins of the Western Transcaucasia stone industry. During the early Holocene era, a new method of stone processing and various types of tools emerged within the aforementioned region. This innovative approach was originally developed in the territory of Iran and Iraq. It's a Mlefaatien culture, which comprises of many significant sites. After conducting a techno-typological analysis of the stone complex, it is believed that hand pressure techniques, backed microblades, Kashkashok side-blow blade-flakes, grooved tools etc. emerged in Western Georgia result of the great migration process from Middle East in the beginning of the 10th millennia BC. This view is supported by the complete range of precise dates, which accurately reflect the migrations ways and times of the early migrants. Additional inquiries in this field, conducted in the future, will undoubtedly uncover even more fascinating insights.

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The Caucasus and the Middle East in the early Holocene (According to recent archaeological research)

Chkhatarashvili,

Manko,

Khalvashi

2023

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Reconstructing Neolithic obsidian procurement in Western Georgia through an obsidian characterization study

Chkhatarashvili,

Davenport,

Glascock

et al. 2024

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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On One More Concept of “Neolithic” Based on the Postmodernism Approach

Haskevych¹

2022

Arheologia

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Valerii Manko and Guram Chkhatarashvili published their article in the “Arheologia”, No. 2, 2022. In the paper, they discussed the migration of bearers of four Neolithic flint industries from Southwest Asia through the Caucasus to the south of Eastern Europe from the final Pleistocene to the early Atlantic. According to the authors, stable connections between these remote areas led to the emergence of four “information networks”, which they called “Cultural-Historical Regions” (CHR). The authors believe that the first region of such type in human history was the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) in the Near East. Therefore, they call the “theoretical basis” of their study “the idea of understanding the Neolithic as an epoch of the formation of global information networks, within which innovations created in the Near and Middle East were disseminated.” V. Manko began to develop the described theoretical views in 2010 when he wrote that the reason for the emergence of the CHR is the ability to communicate, formed due to the mental changes of inhabitants of the PPNA large settlements. The statement about specific psyche and worldview as the basis of Neolithic has been expressed as an idea of Post-Processual archaeology long before V. Manko announced it. In particular, Trevor Watkins developed this concept in detail. However, V. Manko does not mention publications by any post-processualists in his articles. The statement about the formation of the ability to communicate only in the Neolithic is V. Manko’s novelty. He based it on one reference to a publication of Alexey N. Sorokin, who allegedly claimed that the bearers of different flint industries did not contact each other in the central part of European Russia in the Mesolithic. V. Manko misinterpreted this particular subjective observation and gave it the meaning of a global pattern. Thus, his definition of the Neolithic is controversial, because of using this erroneous premise. Generally, V. Manko’s theoretical reasoning is full of contradictions, logical errors, terminological chaos, and rhetoric in the postmodernism style. It is noteworthy that V. Manko himself does not fully adhere to his previous theoretical views in his later works.

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Transcaucasia and Neolithic of the South of Eastern Europe

Cited by 4 publications

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The Caucasus and the Middle East in the early Holocene (According to recent archaeological research)

The Caucasus and the Middle East in the early Holocene (According to recent archaeological research)

Reconstructing Neolithic obsidian procurement in Western Georgia through an obsidian characterization study

On One More Concept of “Neolithic” Based on the Postmodernism Approach

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