The Problem of Early Bronze Age Architecture in Transcaucasia

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Morteza  Hessari ¹ (Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.)
Hassan  Akbari ² (M.A. in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2023-07-29 Accepted : 2023-07-29 Published : 2007-02-20

Keywords: Early Bronze Age, Transcaucasia, the Shomu-Shulaveri Culture, Archaeology of Northwest Iran,

Abstract :

The archaeology of the Transcaucasus has a very close relationship with the archaeology of the Near East in all periods, especially Northwest Iran and East Turkey, which play an important role in this bilateral relationship. One of the archaeological periods of Transcaucasia is the Early Bronze Age culture, which has a relative chronology from the end of the 4th millennium BC to the first half of the 3rd millennium BC. In this article, we try to provide a summary about the round buildings that are characteristic of the Early Bronze Age architecture by comparing the architecture of the Shomu-Shulaveri culture and Transcaucasia Bronze Age.