Upper Paleolithic-Epipaleolithic stone tool industry
Not to be confused with Trialeti culture.
Trialetian culture
Period
Mesolithic
Dates
c. 16/13000 – c. 8000 BP
Major sites
Trialeti, Shanidar Cave, Huto and Kamarband Caves, Kotias Klde, Chokh
Preceded by
Baradostian culture
Followed by
Shulaveri-Shomu culture
The Mesolithic
↑ Upper Paleolithic
Mesolithic cultures
Mesolithic Europe
Fosna–Hensbacka culture
Komsa culture
Maglemosian culture
Iron Gates Mesolithic
Kunda culture
Narva culture
Komornica culture
Swiderian culture
Epipaleolithic Transylvania
Mesolithic Transylvania
Tardenoisian
Schela Cladovei culture
Mesolithic Southeastern Europe
Epipalaeolithic Near East
Levantine corridor
Natufian
Caucasus
Trialetian Mesolithic
Zagros
Zarzian culture
↓ Neolithic
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Trialetian is the name for an Upper Paleolithic-Epipaleolithic stone tool industry from the South Caucasus.[1] It is tentatively dated to the period between 16,000 / 13,000 BP and 8,000 BP.[2]
^Anna Stolberg: Glossar In: Vor 12.000 Jahren in Anatolien. Die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (ed.), Stuttgart 2007, pg. 375–377, here: pg. 377.
^Frédérique Brunet: Asie centrale: vers une redéfinition des complexes culturels de la fin du Pléistocène et des débuts de l’Holocène, in: Paléorient 28,2 (2002) pg. 9-24.
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