Kura-Araxes culture facts for kids

Hunting by Kura–Araxes people

The Kura-Araxes culture or the Early trans-Caucasian culture, a people that lived from 3400 BC until about 2000 BC. The earliest evidence for this culture is found on the Ararat plain; it then spread to Georgia by 3000 B.C.

The economy was based on farming and livestock-raising (especially of cattle and sheep). 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.

The lands they lived in are now Armenia, Georgia and the Caucasus.

Images for kids

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  Kura-Araxes pottery fragments and obsidian from the Shengavit Settlement

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

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  Pottery