Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mehdi Kazempour ¹
• Behrouz Omrani ²
• Reza Rezaloo ³

¹ Ph.D Student Department of Archaeology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabil, Ardabil

² Iranian Archaeological Research Centre of ICHTO, Eastern Azerbaijan, Tabriz

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabil

Abstract

The most important characteristics of the occupants of the second millennium BC in northern Iran and its adjacent regions such as the provinces of East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, Azerbaijan Republic, Armenia and southern Russia, is the settlements containing castles with defense walls and huge stone graves as well using bronze artifacts and production of gray and buff polished pottery. The presence of a large number of Kurgan graves distributed on the wider areas of East Azerbaijan to southern Russia which often lack residential areas, have been the fundamental problems concerning architectural patterns of their culture. In this paper it is attempted through comparative study to represent the main features of the second millennium BC in Eastern Azerbaijan on the basis of zard khaneh excavation and nearby regions.
 
 

Keywords

• Eastern Azerbaijan
• Zardkhane area
• Bronze Age
• Iron Age
• Stone graves