Trialetian Mesolithic

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

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.