• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The recent contribution of scientific techniques to the study of Nokalakevi in Samegrelo, Georgia
  • Contributor: Everill, Paul; Murgulia, Nikoloz; Lomitashvili, Davit; Colvin, Ian; Lortkipanidze, Besik; Schwenninger, Jean-Luc; Cook, Gordon
  • Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021
  • Published in: Anatolian Studies, 71 (2021), Seite 29-45
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/s006615462100003x
  • ISSN: 0066-1546; 2048-0849
  • Keywords: History ; Cultural Studies ; Archeology
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The site of Nokalakevi, in western Georgia, has seen significant excavation since 1973, including, since 2001, a collaborative Anglo-Georgian project. However, the interpretation of the site has largely rested on architectural analysis of standing remains and the relative dating of deposits based on the study of ceramics. Since 2013, the Anglo-Georgian Expedition to Nokalakevi has collected a diverse dataset derived from multiple scientific techniques including optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of ceramics, radiocarbon dating, δ<jats:sup>13</jats:sup>C and δ<jats:sup>15</jats:sup>N analysis and <jats:sup>87</jats:sup>Sr/<jats:sup>86</jats:sup>Sr analysis. The full results of these analyses are reported here for the first time along with implications for the interpretation of the archaeology, which include greater detail in the site chronology but also indicators of diet and migration.</jats:p>