Kura–Araxes culture
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The Kura-Araxes culture or the Early trans-Caucasian culture, a people that lived from 3400 BC until about 2000 BC.[1] The earliest evidence for this culture is found on the Ararat plain; thence it spread to Georgia by 3000 B.C.
The land they lived in are now Armenia, Georgia , Azerbaijan and the Caucasus.
Kura–Araxes Culture Media
Kura-Araxes pottery fragments and obsidian from the Shengavit Settlement
Pottery jar, Tepeyatagi, Khudat district, Kur-Araz culture
References
- ↑ The early Trans-Caucasian culture - I.M. Diakonoff, 1984
Other websites
- The Chronology of the Caucasus During the Early Metal Age: Observations from Central Transcaucasus Archived 2005-04-30 at the Wayback Machine - Giorgi L. Kavtaradze
- The Beginnings of Metallurgy Archived 2002-12-05 at the Wayback Machine - includes extensive discussion of Kura-Araxes metalworking
