Talish–Mughan culture

The Mughan culture or the Talish-Mughan culture is an archeological culture of the late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age epoch in the Mughan plain and the Talysh Mountains in northwest Iran and Southeast Azerbaijan.

Characteristics

The characteristics of the Mughan culture are:

Graves in stone boxes and the graves.
Graves can be single, clustered, or joint – men and women buried together, with a rich and poor inventory.
Cattle-breeding, agriculture and maybe fishing were the main occupations.
Implements and weapons were made of bronze and iron.
Weapons were bronze and iron swords with a bronze two-faucet hilt and bronze poniards with a “framed handle”.
Pottery was made by hand. A basket-shaped “censer” and dishes in the shape of teapots were distinguished.

Grave inventories reflect a decomposition process of ancestral relations and property differentiation among tribes of the given culture.

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Morgan J., Mission scientifique en Perse, t. 1, P., 1894.