The arguments for the placing of the original nucleus
of the Early
Trans-Caucasian culture in the Araxes valley around Erevan are not based solely on the elimination of
alternatives for varying reasons, nor
only on the quality of the
pottery nor again on the fertility of the region and its potentiality as the cradle of an expanding population
in favour of the theory of an original centre of this
culture in the middle Araxes
valley, the plain around Erevan; but they surely indicate it as the most probable centre.
Charles
Burney
The People of the Hills:
Ancient Ararat and Caucasus