Trialetian Mesolithic

[6] In contrast, recent excavations in the Valley of Qvirila river, to the north of the Trialetian region, display a Mesolithic culture.

[citation needed] The subsistence of these groups were based on hunting Capra caucasica, wild boar and brown bear.

[12][13][14] The lithic industry of the three phases show similarities such as the predominance of microliths, small cores and obsidian as raw material.

[12][14] The backed an scalene bladelets are the dominant type of microlith; these tools show similarities with those of the Late Upper Paleolithic of Kalavan-1 and the Mesolithic layer B of the Kotias Klde.

Though Apnagyugh-8 industry shows some similarities with Zarzian and Trialeti cultures, analytic studies for proving this comparison are still in the process.Layer III of Kmlo-2 contained the so-called “Kmlo tools”.

[16] It has been suggested that the Kmlo tools are distinctive features of a culture established circa 9-8k cal BC on the highlands of western Armenia and continued at least until the 6th-5th millennia calBC.

In the southwest corner of the Trialetian region it has been proposed[9] that this culture evolved towards a local version of the PPNB around 7k BC, in sites as Cafer Höyük.

The genome of a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer individual found at the layer A2 of the Kotias Klde rock shelter in Georgia (labeled KK1), dating from 9,700 BP, has been analysed.

Distribution of the Trialetian according to Kozłowski and Kaczanowska (2004) [ 8 ]
Fertile Crescent circa 7500 BC, with main sites of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period. In this map we can see some sites that have been associated with the Trialetian culture, such as Hallan Çemi and Nevali Çori .