Early
Transcaucasian Dates
“The more or less contemporary Kül Tepe II 14C date should also be taken into consideration: 3766-3543 cal B.C. (LE-163). Recently
three dates were received
from the AMS Facility at the University of Arizona for Satkhs, the site which is situated in Dzhavakheti (8 km northeast of Nino
Tsminda), i.e. in the southeast
direction from Amiranis Gora and Kura-Araxes layers of which have ceramic parallels with Mokhra Blur (Ararat valley),
Kvatskhelebi and Amiranis Gora:
3072-2916 cal B.C. (AA-7768), 3343-3043 cal B.C. (AA-12853) and 3301-2926 cal B.C. (AA-12854) (Isaak et a/. 1994: 26,
28f). One date was obtained
from a level associated with Early Bronze Age materials of the north-west Armenian site Horom in the Shirak valley: 3371-3136
cal B.C. (AA-7767) and two
dates were from a tomb of the same site: 3341-3048 cal B.C. (AA-10191) and 3990-3823 cal B.C. (AA-11130). All three
vessels of this tomb reveal in
the opinion of the excavators relatively early forms of the Kura-Araxes culture (Badaljan et al. 1994:
14,Table Illc).”
Proceedings of the International Conference “The Beginnings of
Metallurgy", Bochum, 199503/10/2009
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