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In the framework of the project, dr. Elisabetta Boaretto spent a period of nine days on the Okherakhevi excavation, where she undertook selective collection of samples for C14 analyses in highly controlled environment from both the excavated kurgans. In addition, she collected samples from the old excavations at the neighbouring site of Tsikhiagora.
The dates obtained from these samples will be integrated with those from the samples from the EBA levels of Natsargora and Aradetis Orgora collected by the expedition in 2009, which have been analyzed at the Weizmann Institute Laboratory during the past winter, and compared with the corpus of available C14 dates from the region. We thus hope to progress toward the definition of a absolute regional chronology for the EBA.
Animal and human bones from the Okherakhevi excavation were collected with the aim of analyzing them it Italy. If the very poor state of preservation of the human remains will allow, these will be used for palaopathological and paleonutritional analyses. Raw obsidian samples for provenance determination were collected from the Okherakhevi excavation, as well as from the Natsargora material, to be analysed together with those collected in 2009.
Finally, additional pottery samples were collected from the Natsargora material. These should allow to implement the results of the analyses carried out in Padova and Venice on the samples collected in 2009, by adding important information on the less frequent wares attested at the site (Martkopi etc.).
The dates obtained from these samples will be integrated with those from the samples from the EBA levels of Natsargora and Aradetis Orgora collected by the expedition in 2009, which have been analyzed at the Weizmann Institute Laboratory during the past winter, and compared with the corpus of available C14 dates from the region. We thus hope to progress toward the definition of a absolute regional chronology for the EBA.
Animal and human bones from the Okherakhevi excavation were collected with the aim of analyzing them it Italy. If the very poor state of preservation of the human remains will allow, these will be used for palaopathological and paleonutritional analyses. Raw obsidian samples for provenance determination were collected from the Okherakhevi excavation, as well as from the Natsargora material, to be analysed together with those collected in 2009.
Finally, additional pottery samples were collected from the Natsargora material. These should allow to implement the results of the analyses carried out in Padova and Venice on the samples collected in 2009, by adding important information on the less frequent wares attested at the site (Martkopi etc.).