Alikomektepe

Alikomektepe (Azerbaijani: Əliköməktəpə) is an ancient settlement located in Jalilabad District (Azerbaijan), in the Mugan plain, belonging to the Chalcolithic period, dating to c. 5000 BC.[1] Early levels belonged to the Shulaveri-Shomu culture. It covers an area of over 1 hectare.

Alikomektepe
Əliköməktəpə
Ancient pottery from Alikomektepe, c. 5000-4500 BC
Alikomektepe is located in Azerbaijan
Alikomektepe
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LocationAzerbaijan
RegionJalilabad District (Azerbaijan)
Coordinates39.336940°N 48.427500°E / 39.336940; 48.427500
History
Founded5000 BC
PeriodsChalcolithic

Description

Materials from this site are very close to the materials obtained from monuments of northwestern Iran (Dalma ware). The artifacts of the lower level are similar to those at Kültəpə I in Nakhchivan. In the upper levels, there is also pottery of the northern Ubaid period type.[2]

There was numerous earthenware found during the excavations. More than 300 samples of painted pottery covered with monochrome drawings were found. Most of the brown and red drawings are triangles, rhombuses, containing straight and curved lines. Many items from Alikomektepe are considered as locally produced.[3]

Alikomek-Kultepe culture

Some archaeologists speak of the ancient Alikomek-Kultepe culture of southeastern Caucasus, which followed the Shulaveri-Shomu culture, and covered the transition from the Neolithic to Chalcolithic periods (c. 4500 BC).

According to A. Courcier,

"Situated respectively at the border of the Mugan Steppe and in Nakhichevan (Azerbaijan), the settlements of Alikemek and Kul’tepe I were excavated in the 1950s–1970s and are not dated with certainty. They probably represent a relatively long period and occupation seems to have started early (probably during the sixth millennium BCE) (Lyonnet 2008, pp. 4–6). The Alikemek–Kul’tepe culture covered the Ararat Plain, Nakhichevan, the Mil’skoj and Mugan Steppes and the region around Lake Urmia in north-western Iran" (Kushnareva 1997, p. 33).[4]

See also

Notes
  1. Махмудов Ф.Р., Нариманов П.Г., 1974. Поселение Аликемек-тепеси. АО 1973 г. М. (Russian)
  2. Proceedings of the International Conference on The Beginnings of Metallurgy, Bochum 1995
  3. Mahmudov F.R. Əliköməktəpəsində arxeoloji qazıntılann ilkin yekunlan // Azərbaycanda daş dövrü və eneolit, Bakı, 1984. (in Azerbaijani)
  4. A. Courcier (2014), Ancient Metallurgy in the Caucasus From the Sixth to the Third Millennium BCE. In B. W. Roberts, C. P. Thornton (eds.), Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective. DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-9017-3_22

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