Flint Artefacts of Layer 4 at the Fatma Koba Site, Cimea, Ukraine
Keywords:
Crimea, Early Holocene, Trialeti industry, pressure lamellar technology, asymmetric triangles, bipolar retouch, migrations, networks.
Abstract
The Early Holocene complex of Layer 4 at the Fatma Koba is associated with a change from the Shpan Koba to the Murzak Koba culture. The change is marked by the appearance of pressure lamellar technology. The beginning of the transformation relates to the migration of Darkveti population from the South Caucasus. It is significant that the change in the technology of knapping did not lead to a change in the typology of the complex of modified pieces.
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