Abstract
Middle Palaeolithic blade industries have been known for many years from the southern part of the Great Caucasus. Recently published technological studies demonstrate strong affinities between the laminar assemblages from Djruchula Cave (Republic of Georgia) and those from several Near Eastern Early Middle Paleolithic sites. A series of new thermoluminescence dates from Djruchula Cave indicate at least two distinct human occupation phases (between 210/ 260 ka for Layer 2 and later around 140 ka for Layer 1), with a long chronological gap in between. Combined with the available dates from Near Eastern laminar assemblages, these new results illustrate the use of the same production systems of blades across these two large regions between 260 and 140,000 years ago.
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