Veli B. Bakhshaliyev

Nakhchivan Branch of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan

E-mail: velibahshaliyev@mail.ru

Keywords: Nakhchivan, the Dalma tepe culture, painted pottery, finger print ceramics, obsidian, nomadic cattle breeding.

The issue of the connections between the cultures of the South Caucasus and the Middle East in the 6th–4th millennia BC has long attracted the attention of experts in Caucasian studies. If earlier the existence of these connections could be proved by single finds, at present they are confirmed by a large array of archaeological materials from Transcaucasian sites. In particular, the excavation of the 5th millemium BC layers in the Nakhchivan tepe settlement allowed gathering a collection of pottery of the so-called Dalma tepe type. For the first time such ware was found in the 1960s in northeastern Iran, in the settlement of Dalma Tepe. Currently, this pottery is known in the territories of Iran, Iraq and South Azerbaijan.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960630005448-1