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Autres noms	Des variantes selon la langue : en géorgien : მტკვარ-არაქსის კულტურა; en arménien : Քուռ-Արաքսի մշակույթ; en azéri : Kür-Araz mədəniyyəti; en turc : Karaz Kültürü; en russe : Куро-араксская культура; en anglais : Kura–Araxes culture;
Répartition géographique	Caucase, est de l'Anatolie
Période	Âge du Bronze
Chronologie	de 3400 à 2000 av. J.-C. environ

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La culture kouro-araxe ou kouro-araxienne, également culture de la Transcaucasie ancienne , est une culture archéologique qui s'est développée à l'âge du Bronze, entre 3400 et 2000 av. J.-C. environ^[1]^[2]^[3]. Son nom lui vient des deux principaux fleuves de la région, la Koura et l'Araxe. Cette culture est parfois nommée cultures de Shengavit, Karaz (Erzurum), Pulur, et Yanik Tepe^[4]. Elle précède la culture de Khirbet Kerak en Syrie et le Cananéen après l'effondrement de l'empire akkadien.

Chronologie et aire de développement

Chronologie

Les plus anciennes attestations de cette culture proviennent de la plaine d'Ararat. Elle s'étend dans le nord du Caucase autour de 3000 av. J.-C. sans atteindre la Colchide^[5].

Cette culture prend fin à différentes dates selon les régions, entre 2700/2600 av. J.-C. et 2000 av. J.-C.^[5]. La cause de la disparition de cette culture n'est pas claire^[2] et pourrait être due à l'intrusion de peuples des steppes du nord^[1].

Aire de développement

Ses premières traces apparaissent dans la plaine de l'Ararat ; la culture s'étend ensuite en Géorgie (sauf la partie occidentale de ce pays), puis vers la région de l'actuelle Erzurum (ouest), la Cilicie (sud-ouest), et la région des lacs de Van et d'Ourmia (sud-est), couvrant ainsi à son apogée une superficie de 1 000 km sur 500 km^[2]^[6]^[7].

Mode de vie

nomadisme ?

Occupation du territoire et habitat

Productions matérielles

Céramique

Métallurgie

Outillage en roche taillée

Autres productions matérielles

Pratiques funéraires et rituelles

kourganes : apparus avant, mais développement durant cette période. Dont certains de très grandes dimensions.

Early history

The formative processes of the Kura-Araxes cultural complex, and the date and circumstances of its rise, have been long debated.

Shulaveri-Shomu culture preceded the Kura–Araxes culture in the area. There were many differences between these two cultures, so the connection was not clear. Later, it was suggested that the Sioni culture of eastern Georgia possibly represented a transition from the Shulaveri to the Kura-Arax cultural complex.

At many sites, the Sioni culture layers can be seen as intermediary between Shulaver-Shomu-Tepe layers and the Kura-Araxes layers.^[8] This kind of stratigraphy warrants a chronological place of the Sioni culture at around 4000 BCE.^[9]

Nowadays scholars consider the Kartli area, as well as the Kakheti area (in the river Sioni region) as key to forming the earliest phase of the Kura–Araxes culture.^[9] To a large extent, this appears as an indigenous culture of Caucasus that was formed over a long period, and at the same time incorporating foreign influences.

There are some indications (such as at Arslantepe) of the overlapping in time of the Kura-Araxes and Uruk cultures; such contacts may go back even to the Middle Uruk period.^[10]

Some scholars have suggested that the earliest manifestation of the Kura-Araxes phenomenon should be dated at least to the last quarter of the 5th millennium BC. This is based on the recent data from Ovçular Tepesi, a Late Chalcolithic settlement located in Nakhchivan by the Arpaçay river.^[11]

Expansion

Rather quickly, elements of Kura–Araxes culture started to proceed westward to the Erzurum plain, southwest to Cilicia, and to the southeast into the area of Lake Van, and below the Urmia basin in Iran, such as to Godin Tepe.

Finally, it proceeded into the present-day Syria (Amuq valley), and as far as Palestine.

Its territory corresponds to large parts of modern Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Georgia, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, and parts of Iran and Turkey.^[12]^[13]^[14]

At Sos Hoyuk, in Erzurum Province, Turkey, early forms of Kura-Araxes pottery were found in association with local ceramics as early as 3500-3300 BC. During the Early Bronze Age in 3000-2200 BC, this settlement was part of the Kura-Araxes phenomenon.^[15]

At Arslantepe, Turkey, around 3000 BCE, there was widespread burning and destruction, after which Kura-Araxes pottery appeared in the area.^[16]

According to Geoffrey Summers, the movement of Kura-Araxes peoples into Iran and the Van region, which he interprets as quite sudden, started shortly before 3000 BC, and may have been prompted by the 'Late Uruk Collapse' (end of the Uruk period), taking place at the end of Uruk IV phase c. 3100 BC.^[17]

Settlements

Archaeological evidence of inhabitants of the Kura–Araxes culture showed that ancient settlements were found along the Hrazdan river, as shown by drawings at a mountainous area in a cave nearby.^[18] Structures in settlements have not revealed much differentiation, nor was there much difference in size or character between settlements,^[19] facts that suggest they probably had a poorly developed social hierarchy for a significant stretch of their history. Some, but not all, settlements were surrounded by stone walls.^[19] They built mud-brick houses, originally round, but later developing into subrectangular designs with structures of just one or two rooms, multiple rooms centered around an open space, or rectilinear designs.^[19]

At some point the culture's settlements and burial grounds expanded out of lowland river valleys and into highland areas.^[20] Although some scholars have suggested that this expansion demonstrates a switch from agriculture to pastoralism and that it serves as possible proof of a large-scale arrival of Indo-Europeans, facts such as that settlement in the lowlands remained more or less continuous suggest merely that the people of this culture were diversifying their economy to encompass crop and livestock agriculture.^[20]

Shengavit Settlement is a prominent Kura-Araxes site in present-day Yerevan area in Armenia. It was inhabited from approximately 3200 BC cal to 2500 BC cal. Later on, in the Middle Bronze Age, it was used irregularly until 2200 BC cal. The town occupied an area of six hectares, which is large for Kura-Araxes sites.

Kura-Araxes mounds

In the 3rd millennium B.C., one particular group of mounds of the Kura–Araxes culture is remarkable for their wealth. This was the final stage of culture's development. These burial mounds are known as the Martqopi (or Martkopi) period mounds. Those on the left bank of the river Alazani are often 20-25 meter high and 200-300 meter in diameter. They contain especially rich artefacts, such as gold and silver jewelry.^[21]

Economy

The economy was based on farming and livestock-raising (especially of cattle and sheep).^[22] They grew grain and orchard crops, and are known to have used implements to make flour. They raised cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, and in later phases, horses.^[22]

Before the Kura-Araxes period, horse bones were not found in Transcaucasia. Later, beginning about 3300 BCE, they became widespread, with signs of domestication.^[23]

There is evidence of trade with Mesopotamia as well as Asia Minor.^[22] It is, however, considered above all to be indigenous to the Caucasus, and its major variants characterized (according to Caucasus historian Amjad Jaimoukha) later major cultures in the region.^[22]

Metallurgy

Early expansion of the Kuro-Araxes culture (light shading) shown in relation to subsequent cultures in the area, such as Urartu (dark shading).

In the earliest phase of the Kura–Araxes culture, metal was scarce. In comparison, the preceding Leilatepe culture's metalwork tradition was far more sophisticated.^[24]

The Kura–Araxes culture would later display "a precocious metallurgical development, which strongly influenced surrounding regions".^[25] They worked copper, arsenic, silver, gold,^[19] tin, and bronze.^[20]

Their metal goods were widely distributed, from the Volga, Dnieper and Don-Donets river systems in the north to Syria and Palestine in the south and Anatolia in the west.

Goods

Their pottery was distinctive. The spread of their pottery along trade routes into surrounding cultures was much more impressive than any of their achievements domestically.^[19] It was painted black and red, using geometric designs. Examples have been found as far south as Syria and Israel, and as far north as Dagestan and Chechnya.^[26] The spread of this pottery, along with archaeological evidence of invasions, suggests that the Kura-Araxes people may have spread outward from their original homes and, most certainly, had extensive trade contacts. Jaimoukha believes that its southern expanse is attributable primarily to Mitanni and the Hurrians.^[22]

Viticulture

Viticulture and wine-making were widely practised in the area from the earliest times. Viticulture even goes back to the earlier Shulaveri-Shomu culture.

The earliest evidence of domesticated grapes in the world has been found at Gadachrili Gora, near the village of Imiri, Marneuli Municipality, in southeastern Republic of Georgia; carbon-dating points to the date of about 6000 BC.^[27]^[28]

Grape pips dating back to the V-IVth millennia B.C. were found in Shulaveri; others dating back to the IVth millennium B.C. were found in Khizanaant Gora—all in this same 'Shulaveri area' of the Republic of Georgia.^[29]

A theory has been suggested by Stephen Batiuk that the Kura-Araxes folk may have spread Vitis vinifera vine and wine technology to the “Fertile Crescent”—to Mesopotamia and the Eastern Mediterranean.^[30] The spread of wine-goblet form, such as represented by the Khirbet Kerak ware, is clearly associated with these peoples. The same applies to the large ceramic vessels used for grape fermentation.

Culture

The culture is closely linked to the approximately contemporaneous Maykop culture of Ciscaucasia. As Amjad Jaimoukha puts it,

"The Kura-Araxes culture was contiguous, and had mutual influences, with the Maikop culture in the Northwest Caucasus. According to E.I. Krupnov (1969:77), there were elements of the Maikop culture in the early memorials of Chechnya and Ingushetia in the Meken and Bamut kurgans and in Lugovoe in Serzhen-Yurt. Similarities between some features and objects of the Maikop and Kura-Araxes cultures, such as large square graves, the bold-relief curvilinear ornamentation of pottery, ochre-coloured ceramics, earthen hearth props with horn projections, flint arrowheads, stone axes and copper pitchforks are indicative of a cultural unity that pervaded the Caucasus in the Neolithic Age."^[31]

Late in the history of this culture, its people built kurgans of greatly varying sizes, containing widely varying amounts and types of metalwork, with larger, wealthier kurgans surrounded by smaller kurgans containing less wealth.^[32] This trend suggests the eventual emergence of a marked social hierarchy.^[32] Their practice of storing relatively great wealth in burial kurgans was probably a cultural influence from the more ancient civilizations of the Fertile Crescent to the south.^[32]

According to Giulio Palumbi (2008), the typical red-black ware of Kura–Araxes culture originated in eastern Anatolia, and then moved on to the Caucasus area. But then these cultural influences came back to Anatolia mixed in with other cultural elements from the Caucasus.^[33]

Burial customs

Inhumation practices are mixed. Flat graves are found but so are substantial kurgan burials, the latter of which may be surrounded by cromlechs. This points to a heterogeneous ethno-linguistic population (see section below).^{[réf. nécessaire]}

Analyzing the situation in the Kura-Araxes period, T.A. Akhundov notes the lack of unity in funerary monuments, which he considers more than strange in the framework of a single culture; for the funeral rites reflect the deep culture-forming foundations and are weakly influenced by external customs. There are non-kurgan and kurgan burials, burials in ground pits, in stone boxes and crypts, in the underlying ground strata and on top of them; using both the round and rectangular burials; there are also substantial differences in the typical corpse position.^[34] Burial complexes of Kura–Araxes culture sometimes also include cremation.^[35]

Here one can come to the conclusion that the Kura–Araxes culture developed gradually through a synthesis of several cultural traditions, including the ancient cultures of the Caucasus and nearby territories.

Ethno-linguistic makeup

Hurrian and Urartian language elements are quite probable, as are Northeast Caucasian ones. Some authors subsume Hurrians and Urartians under Northeast Caucasian as well as part of the Alarodian theory.^[36] The presence of Kartvelian languages was also highly probable. Influences of Semitic languages and Indo-European languages are highly possible, though the presence of the languages on the lands of the Kura–Araxes culture is more controversial.

In the Armenian hypothesis of Indo-European origins, this culture (and perhaps that of the Maykop culture) is identified with the speakers of the Anatolian languages.^[37]^[38]^[39]^[40]^[41]

The expansion of Y-DNA subclade R-Z93 (R1a1a1b2), according to Mascarenhas et al. (2015), is compatible with "the archeological records of eastward expansion of West Asian populations in the 4th millennium BCE, culminating in the socalled Kura-Araxes migrations in the post-Uruk IV period."^[42] According to Pamjav et al. (2012), "Inner and Central Asia is an overlap zone" for the R -Z280 and R -Z93 lineages, implying that an "early differentiation zone" of R-M198 "conceivably occurred somewhere within the Eurasian Steppes or the Middle East and Caucasus region as they lie between South Asia and Eastern Europe". ^[43] According to Underhill et al. (2014/2015), R1a1a1, the most frequent subclade of R1a, split into R-Z282 (Europe) and R-Z93 (Asia) at circa 5,800 before present,^[44] in the vicinity of Iran and Eastern Turkey. According to Underhill et al. (2014/2015), "[t]his suggests the possibility that R1a lineages accompanied demic expansions initiated during the Copper, Bronze, and Iron ages."^[45]

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Stephen Batiuk, Mitchell Rothman, Early Transcaucasian Cultures and Their Neighbors. University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania: Expedition, 2007
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Mitchell S. Rothman, « Early Bronze Age migrants and ethnicity in the Middle Eastern mountain zone », Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 112, n^o 30,‎ 2015, p. 9190–9195 (ISSN 0027-8424, DOI 10.1073/pnas.1502220112)

External links

Giorgi L. Kavtaradze, The Chronology of the Caucasus During the Early Metal Age: Observations from Central Transcaucasus 2004. (alternative site)
Kura-Arax Pottery – Karnut I (2900-2500 BC) The Kura-Arax Pottery Technology Database (KAPTech)
The Beginnings of Metallurgy – includes extensive discussion of Kura-Araxes metalworking
Toby Wilkinson (2009), Pathways and highways: routes in Bronze Age Eurasia, ArchAtlas, Version 4.1 – Accessed: 9 November 2015
Dieneke's Anthropology Blog (2013), Origin of Early Transcaucasian Culture (aka Kura-Araxes culture)
Shengavit - a Kura Araxes Culture Site in Yerevan on the Ararat hills, Republic of Armenia. By Hakop Simonyan, 2000-2008 season field director
Problems of Early Metal Age Archaeology of Caucasus and Anatolia. Proceedings of International Conference; November 19–23, 2014, Georgia; edited by G. Narimanishvili. Tbilisi, 2014 305 pages (ISBN 9789941071348)

Sites principaux

Shengavit

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[Bobokhyan2010-1] {a et b} Bobokhyan A., 2010, L'Arménie préouratéenne — L'apparition des villes, in Donabédian P., Mutafian C. (dir.), Les douze capitales d'Arménie, Somogy éditions d'art, Paris, (ISBN 978-2-7572-0343-9), p. 286.

[GD_720-2] {a b et c} Greppin J. A. C., Diakonoff I. M., Some Effects of the Hurro-Urartian People and Their Languages upon the Earliest Armenians, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 111 n°4, p. 720

[3] Diakonoff I.M., 1984, The early Trans-Caucasian culture

[4] Rothman M., 2015, Early Bronze Age migrants and ethnicity in the Middle Eastern mountain zone, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 112 n°30, pp. 9190–9195

[Edens1995-5] {a et b} Edens C., 1995, Transcaucasia at the End of the Early Bronze Age, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, vol. 299/300, pp. 53–64

[Kushnareva-6] Kushnareva K. Kh., 1997, The Southern Caucasus in Prehistory: Stages of Cultural and Socioeconomic Development from the Eighth to the Second Millennium B.C., UPenn Museum of Archaeology, (ISBN 0-924171-50-2), p. 44

[SagonaZimansky2015-7] Sagona A., Zimansky P., Ancient Turkey, Routledge, (ISBN 1-134-44027-8), p. 163

[8] Kighuradze T. 1998:19

[auto-9] {a et b} Guram Mirtskhulava, Guram Chikovani, PHASE OF TRANSITION TO THE KURA-ARAXES CULTURE IN EASTERN GEORGIA. Problems of Early Metal Age Archaeology of Caucasus and Anatolia. Proceedings of International Conference. Tbilisi, 2014

[10] Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze (2012), On the Importance of the Caucasian Chronology for the Foundation of the Common Near Eastern – East European Chronological System

[11] C. MARRO, R. BERTHON, V. BAKHSHALIYEV, On the Genesis of the Kura-Araxes phenomenon: New evidence from Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan). in The Kura-Araxes culture from the Caucasus to Iran, Anatolia and the Levant: Between unity and diversity. Paléorient 40.2 – 2014, C. Chataigner et G. Palumbi, eds. CNRS Édidtions (ISBN 978-2-271-08271-8)

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[14] Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology – Page 246 by Barbara Ann Kipfer

[15] Mustafa Kibaroğlu, Antonio Sagona et Muharrem Satir, « Petrographic and geochemical investigations of the late prehistoric ceramics from Sos Höyük, Erzurum (Eastern Anatolia) », Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 38, n^o 11,‎ 2011, p. 3072–3084 (DOI 10.1016/j.jas.2011.07.006, lire en ligne)

[16] Marcella Frangipane, « Different types of multiethnic societies and different patterns of development and change in the prehistoric Near East », Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 112, n^o 30,‎ 2015, p. 9182–9189 (PMID 26015583, PMCID 4522825, DOI 10.1073/pnas.1419883112)

[17] Geoffrey D. Summers, The Early Trans-Caucasian Culture in Iran: Perspectives and problems. Paléorient 2014 Volume 40 Numéro 2 pp. 155-168

[18] Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East: L to Z. page 52 by Jamie Stokes

[Edens54-19] {a b c d et e} Erreur de référence : Balise <ref> incorrecte : aucun texte n’a été fourni pour les références nommées Edens54

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[21] Konstantine Pitskhelauri,, « Uruk Migrants in the Caucasus », Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, vol. 6,‎ 2012 (lire en ligne)

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