- Trialeti culture
The Trialeti culture is attributed to the first part of the 2nd millennium B.C. [Munchaev 1994, p. 16; cf., Kushnareva and Chubinishvili 1963, pp. 16 ff.] In the late 3rd millennium B.C. settlements of the
Kura-Araxes culture began to be replaced by early Trialeti culture sites. [The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia - Page 266 by Philip L. Kohl] The Trialeti culture was the second culture to appear in theCaucasus , after the Kura-Araxes culture. [ [http://www.drummingnet.com/alekseev/ChapterVIIPart2.html The Alekseev Manuscript - Chapter VII - Part II: Bronze Age in Eurasia ] ] The Trialeti culture shows close ties with the highly-developed cultures of the ancient world, particularly with the Aegean. [ [http://www.visitgeorgia.ge/English/Tours/Other_tours/Archaeological_Tour.htm Trialeti culture] ]The Trialeti culture was known for its particular form of burial. [ [http://www.amarcord.be/georgia/triale01.html Burial in the Trialeti culture] ] The elite were interred in large, very rich burials under earth and stone mounds, which sometimes contained four-wheeled carts. [ [http://www.amarcord.be/georgia/triale01.html Burial in the Trialeti culture] ] Also there were many gold objects found in the graves. [ [http://www.visitgeorgia.ge/English/Tours/Other_tours/Archaeological_Tour.htm Trialeti culture] ] These gold objects were similar to those found in
Iran andIraq . [ [http://www.drummingnet.com/alekseev/ChapterVIIPart2.html The Alekseev Manuscript - Chapter VII - Part II: Bronze Age in Eurasia ] ]In certain theories for locating the Urheimat (homeland) of the
Proto-Indo-European language , this culture is identified with the speakers of the Anatolian languages, and even as an earlier Urheimat. Soviet scholarsTamaz Gamkrelidze andVyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov placed the homeland inArmenia in the 1980's.See also
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Kura-Araxes culture
*Shulaveri-Shomu culture
*Prehistoric Armenia
*Prehistoric Georgia References
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