A widespread Early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the Caucasus that spread from the Armenian highlands south into Anatolia and the Iranian Zagros, characterized by distinctive dark burnished pottery.
Dissolved gradually between c. 2600 and c. 2000 BCE as the Early Bronze Age culture disintegrated across the South Caucasus and eastern Anatolia, likely due to a combination of climate change, population movements, and cultural transformation into successor Early Bronze Age cultures.
Covers the Kura-Araxes culture spread into the Iranian Zagros and its relationship to early Iranian highland societies.
Comprehensive survey of Caucasian prehistory with extended treatment of the Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes culture and its spread from the Armenian highlands.