Application of scalar magnetic rock parameters to the reconstruction of climate coeval with the deposition of sediments in the Kudaro-1 and Kudaro-3 caves, South Ossetia, Georgia

The magnetic method based on along-section variations in scalar magnetic pa rameters of rocks is applied to the reconstruction of the paleoclimate exis ting during the deposition of sediments in the Kudaro-1 (K1) and Kudaro-3 ( K3) caves in South Ossetia, Georgia. The resulting reconstruction suggests the K1 layers studied are 100-150 kyr younger than those in the K1 cave. Th e Acheulian population of the caves is shown to have been nonuniform. A rec ord of an Early Pleistocene geomagnetic excursion (tentatively, Elunino 7) is discovered in K3 layer 9.