Leyla-Tepe culture

Leyla-Tepe culture
Ceramic vessel from the site of Leyla-Tepe, near Quzanlı, Aghdam District of modern day Azerbaijan
Geographical rangeSouth Caucasus
PeriodChalcolithic
Datescirca 4350 BCE — circa 4000 BCE
Major sitesLeyla-Tepe
Preceded byShulaveri–Shomu culture
Followed byKura–Araxes culture

The Leyla-Tepe culture (Azerbaijani: Leylatəpə mədəniyyəti) of the South Caucasus belongs to the Chalcolithic era. It got its name from the site in the Agdam District of modern-day Azerbaijan. Its settlements were distributed on the southern slopes of Central Caucasus, from 3800 until 3200 B.C.

Monuments of the Leyla-Tepe were first located in the 1980s by I. G. Narimanov, a Soviet archaeologist. In the 2000s, attention to the monuments was inspired by the risk of their damage due to the construction of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline and the South Caucasus pipeline.


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