E&G Quaternary Science Journal
E&G Quaternary Science Journal
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Articles | Volume 73, issue 2
Articles | Volume 73, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-73-145-2024
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Articles | Volume 73, issue 2
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07 Aug 2024
Research article |  | 07 Aug 2024

New insights into complex social organization in the southern Caucasus – Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age settlement patterns in the Shiraki Plain (southeast Georgia)

Levan Losaberidze, Giorgi Kirkitadze, Mate Akhalaia, Mikheil Lobjanidze, Michael Zimmerman, and Mikheil Elashvili

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The study of past environmental changes and their effects on cultures provides key information to reconstruct human–environmental interactions and model how climate change affects cultures and possible avenues of future adaptation. The Shiraki Plain is an uninhabited plain largely devoid of water resources. However, traces of extensive Bronze Age civilization with complex social organization were revealed, featuring the typology of settlements, their ages, and spatial planning.
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