Some Remarks on the First Two Georgian-Austrian Excavation Campaigns at Khovle Gora, Shida Kartli, 2011-2012

The site of Khovle Gora represents one of the key sites for the research of the development of Late Bronze and Iron Age material culture. The resumption of the excavation by the Georgian-Austrian Expedition in 2011 addressed the stratigraphic evidence and site occupation periodization presented by Muskhelishvili in 1978. Within this reappraisal special emphasis was put on the question of the date of the appearance of "red ware".