Nakhchivan
Archaeological Sites
“The revealing of monuments that display the
transitional stage from the Late Chalcolithic
to the Early Bronze Age in Nahchivan… indicate that the area was one of the first centers of arising and formation of the Early
Bronze Age. Archaeological excavations
in Nahchivan have exposed such ancient sites as Kültepe I, Kültepe II, Ovchular tepe, Makhta Kültepe, Khalaj, Arabyengije,
Shortepe that belong to the Kur-Araz
culture. The monument’s stratigraphy indicates that the Kur-Araz culture settlement is based on the Chalcolithic level… In none
of monuments of the northern Caucasus
and Transcaucasia the cultural layer was accumulated so much as in Azerbaijan (in Kültepe I - 22.2 m, including the Early
Bronze Age — 9.5 m, in Kültepe II —
14 m, including the Early Bronze Age 10 m). Recently, archaeologists in the Caucasian studies are inclined to date the Kur-Araz
culture between the mid-4th and the
mid-3rd millennia b.c. A study of the monuments situated in Nahchivan produces
new evidence for dating this culture.
The facts show that the Kur-Araz culture had more ancient roots in this area.”
Abbas Seyidov,
“Nahchivan in the Bronze Age”, Baku, “Elm”, 2000, 318 p. Chapter I
•Nakhichevan Science
Centre, The National Academy of Sciences Azerbaijan Republic
03/10/2009
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