title: The Bronze Age occupation of the Black Sea coast of Georgia—New insights from settlement mounds of the Colchian plain
abstract: Abstract Along the lower course of the Rioni and several minor rivers, more than 70 settlement mounds (local name: Dikhagudzuba ) have been identified by field surveys and remote sensing techniques. They give evidence of a formerly densely populated landscape in the coastal lowlands on the Colchian plain (western Georgia) and have been dated to the Bronze Age. As yet, limited information is available on their internal architecture, the chronology of the different layers and their palaeoenvironme
journal: Geoarchaeology