Shulaveri

an early farming settlement dating from the second half of the sixth and the fifth millennium B.C., located 30 km south of Tbilisi. Shulaveri, which was excavated from 1964 to 1966 and in 1970, occupies an area of 1 hectare. The cultural layer is 6 m thick, with nine horizons. Discoveries include round houses and auxiliary structures of raw brick, crude pottery, and implements made of bone (awls, polishers), antler, stone, and obsidian (sickles, end scrapers, adzes). The inhabitants engaged in farming, stock raising, and the tanning of hides. Such settlements as Shulaveri and Shomutepe are typical of the earliest farming culture of Transcaucasia.