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{{short description|Late Stone Age culture in the south Caucasus}}
{{Infobox archaeological culture
|name        = Shulaveri-Shomu culture
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|altnames    =
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|region      = southern [[Caucasus]] region
|period      = [[Neolithic]]
|dates       = {{Circa|6000 BC|5000 BC}}
|typesite    =
|majorsites  = [[Shaumiani]], [[Shomu-tepe]]
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|precededby  = [[Trialetian|Trialetian culture]]
|followedby  = [[Kura–Araxes culture]], [[Trialeti culture]]
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The '''Shulaveri–Shomu culture''', also known as the '''Shulaveri-Shomutepe-Aratashen''' culture,{{sfn|Baumer|2021|p=34}} is an [[archaeological culture]] that existed on the territory of present-day [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Azerbaijan]], and [[Armenia]], as well as parts of northern [[Iran]] during the Late [[Neolithic]]/[[Eneolithic]].{{sfn|Kipfer|2021|p=1247}} It lasted from around the end of the seventh millennium BC to the beginning of the fifth millennium BC.{{sfn|Baumer|2021|p=35}}

==Type-sites==
The name of the Shulaveri-Shomutepe-Aratashen culture comes from the respective archaeological sites of Shulaveri, in Georgia, (known since 1925 as [[Shaumiani]]); [[Shomu-Tepe]], in the [[Agstafa District]] of Azerbaijan; and [[Aratashen]], on the [[Ararat Plain]] in Armenia.{{sfn|Hamon|2008}}{{sfn|Baumer|2021|p=35}} The Shulaveri–Shomu culture has been distinguished during the excavations on the sites of [[Shomutepe]] and [[Babadervis]] in Western Azerbaijan by I. Narimanov (between 1958 and 1964) and at Shulaveris Gora in Eastern Georgia by A.I. Dzhavakhisvili and T.N Chubinishvili (from 1966 to 1976).{{sfn|Hamon|2008}} Discoveries from the sites have revealed that the same cultural features spread on the northern foothills of Lesser Caucasus mountains.{{sfn|Lyonnet et al.|2016}}

The Shulaveri-Shomutepe culture can be differentiated into three groups based on their location and material cultures. The first group is found in the central south Caucasus around the middle [[Kura (river)|Kura]]. This group includes western regions of modern Azerbaijan and the [[Kvemo Kartli]] region in modern southeast Georgia. Sites in this group include Shomutepe, Shulavris Gora, [[Goytepe archaeological complex|Göytepe]], and the nearby [[Mentesh Tepe]] (near [[Tovuz, Azerbaijan]]). The second group includes the [[Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic|Nakhichevan]] region, the [[Mil plain]], and the [[Mughan plain|Mugan steppe]]. Sites include [[Kültəpə|Kültepe I]], [[Alikomektepe|Alikemek Tepesi]], Kamiltepe, and Ilanly Tepe. This group is distinguished by cultural connections with northern [[Mesopotamia]] and [[Iran]], and relatively advanced [[metallurgy]]. The third group is located in the Ararat Plain in modern Armenia, and includes the Aratashen and [[Aknashen|Aknashen-Khatunarkh]] sites.{{sfn|Sagona|2018|p=94}} Many of the above sites, including Shomutepe and Shulaveri, can be seen on a map of the prehistoric southern Caucasus.<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-southern-Caucasus-showing-the-location-of-Neolithic-sites-affiliated-with-the_fig1_303006906 Map of the southern Caucasus, showing the location of Neolithic sites affiliated with the Shomutepe-Shulaveri culture.] "(1) Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe and Göytepe, (2) Guseingulutepesi, (3) Shomutepe, Gargalartepesi, Toiretepe, (4) Imiris Gora, Shulaveri Gora, Khramis Didi Gora, (5) Aruchlo I, (6) Aratashen, (7) Aknashen-Khatunarkh." -- from Seiji Kadowaki 2016, [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303006906 ''Chipped Stone Technology of the Earliest Agricultural Village in the Southern Caucasus: Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe (the Beginning of the 6th Millennium BC).''] - researchgate.net</ref>

==Background==
The Shulaveri–Shomu culture covers the period from around the end of the seventh millennium BC to the beginning of the fifth millennium BC.{{sfn|Baumer|2021|p=35}} The majority of activity dates to the second half of the sixth millennium BC.{{sfn|Kohl|Trifonov|2014}}

Although the Shulaveri–Shomutepe complex firstly was attributed to the [[Eneolithic]] era, it is now considered as a material and cultural example of the Neolithic era except the upper layers where metal objects have been discovered as in Khramis Didi-Gora and [[Aruchlo]] I.{{sfn|Piotrovskiĭ|Bongard-Levin|1988|p=89}}{{sfn|Hamon|2008}}

The Shulaveri–Shomu culture predates the [[Maykop culture|Maykop]] and [[Kura-Araxes culture|Kura-Araxes]] cultures which flourished in this area around 4000–2200 BC, and the middle Bronze Age (c. 3000–1500 BC) [[Trialeti culture]].{{sfn|Kushnareva|1997}} The [[Sioni culture]] of Eastern Georgia possibly represents a transition from the Shulaveri to the Kura-Arax cultural complex.{{sfn|Kiguradze|Menabde|2004}}

==Material culture==

===Subsistence===

The people of the Shulaveri-Shomu culture were proficient farmers, with comparatively advanced knowledge of the domestication of animals and plants.{{sfn|Chataigner|2016}} Evidence found at the sites indicates that livelihood was based on cereal cultivation and domestic animal breeding.{{sfn|Hamon|2008}}{{sfn|Lyonnet et al.|2016}} Domesticated animals including goat, sheep, cow, pig, and dog are found from the earliest phase of this culture.{{sfn|Kiguradze|2001}} A wide variety of cultivated plants are found, including 10 species of wheat and several types of barley, as well as oats, millet, sorgum, lentil, pea, bean, cultivated grape, melon, sorrel, amaranth, and goosefoots, perhaps indicating long-term cultivation and local domestication.{{sfn|Kiguradze|2001}} Farming was partly assisted by the construction of irrigation canals. Around 5900 BC, villagers at Gadachrili attempted to divert the Shulaveri river to the nearby fields using a system of canals. This is the oldest example of water management in the Caucasus. The attempt seems to have been successful, but sediment deposition due to slow water flow probably necessitated regular maintenance.{{sfn|Baumer|2021|p=38}} Hunting and fishing were less significant means of subsistence; game included a wide variety of species including deer, wild goat, aurochs, wild horse, hare, fox, jackal, gazelle, raccoon, wolf, turtle, and numerous species of birds. Fish included gobio, roach, barbel, pike, and sturgeon.{{sfn|Kiguradze|2001}}

===Settlements and structures===

Shulaveri-Shomu settlements are concentrated in the middle Kura river, Ararat valley, and Nakhchivan plain regions. They are found on artificial hills, or [[Tell (archaeology)|tells]], which emerged from the accumulation of occupation layers at the same site. Settlements usually consist of three to five villages, which are usually less than 1 hectare in area, with perhaps dozens or hundreds of inhabitants; larger sites, such as Khramis Didi Gora, can be as much as 4 or 5 hectares, with perhaps several thousand residents. Qarabel Tepe, a large and unique Late Neolithic site on the Mil Plain consisting of multiple mounds, has pottery and tool finds spread over an 8 hectare area. Larger settlements may have played a central role within a cluster of villages. Some were surrounded by trenches, which were either defensive or for ritual purposes. Although several metres of deposits are found at several sites, they may have only been occupied for short lengths of time.{{sfn|Kiguradze|2001}}{{sfn|Baumer|2021|p=35}}{{sfn|Hamon|2008}}{{sfn|Ricci et al.|2018}} 

Settlements consisted of mud-brick circular, oval, and semi-oval single-storey and single-room buildings with domed roofs. Hearths are found in residential structures.{{sfn|Baumer|2021|p=35}}{{sfn|Hamon|2008}} The buildings were different sizes based on their intended purpose. Larger buildings, with diameters ranging from 2 to 5 metres, were used as living areas, while smaller buildings were used as storage (1-2 m diameter).{{sfn|Hamon|2008}} Entrances of buildings at Shulaveri and Shomutepe take the form of a narrow doorway. Floors may have been painted with red ochre. Flues in the middle of the roofs provided light and ventilation.{{sfn|Sagona|2018|p=101}}

Small, semi-subterranean, circular clay bins are commonly found at Shulaveri-Shomu sites in association with residential structures, and have been interpreted as storage containers for grain or tools.{{sfn|Kadowaki et al.|2015}}

===Ceramics===

[[File:Saxsı qab 6.JPG|thumb|Neolithic pottery from Ilanlitepe. [[Nizami Ganjavi Ganja State History-Ethnography Museum]]]]

Levels of ceramic production in Shulaveri–Shomu:{{sfn|Hamon|2008}}
{| class="wikitable"
|I  stage 
|Rough pots with jutting base 
|-
|II  stage 
|Finely decorated pottery 
|-
|III  stage 
|Rough coloured and decorated ceramics with flat bases 
|-
|IV  stage
|Dyed pots
|-
|V stage
|Fine red polished pottery 
|}

Early Shulaveri-Shomu culture had very few ceramic vessels, which were imported from Mesopotamia. Local ceramic production dates from around 5800 BC.{{sfn|Baumer|2021|p=35}} Handmade pottery with engraved decorations have been discovered during excavations.{{sfn|Hamon|2008}}{{sfn|Lyonnet et al.|2016}} Territorial clay was used in the production of earthenware. Basalt and grog, later plant materials were used as temper in pottery.{{sfn|Lyonnet et al.|2016}}

===Tools===

[[File:Sümük pardaxlayıcı, qaşıqlar və lövhəciklər.JPG|thumb|right|Bone spoons, polishing implements, and boards from Kultepe I, Babadervish, and Shomutepe sites]]

[[File:Bone sickle with teeth from Shomutepe.jpg|thumb|A [[sickle]] made from bone found at Shomutepe]]

Tools such as blades, burins and scrapers, made from materials including obsidian, bone, and antler have been discovered.{{sfn|Hamon|2008}}{{sfn|Lyonnet et al.|2016}}

Pestles revealed in Shulaveri–Shomu sites were mainly made of basalt (50%), metamorphic rocks (34%) and sandstones (11%).{{sfn|Hamon|2008}}

=== Metalwork ===

Metal items are rarely found at Shulaveri-Shomu sites.{{sfn|Lyonnet et al.|2016}} Yet they become more common towards its end, at the end of the 6th millennium BC, especially in the middle Kura valley. "Compositional analyses of some of these ornaments and small tools revealed that they are made of unalloyed copper".<ref>Thomas Rose 2022, [https://iris.uniroma1.it/retrieve/5172909a-429c-4fc2-901d-f1e82b1465cb/Tesi_dottorato_Rose.pdf Emergence of copper pyrotechnology in Western Asia.] PhD thesis, Beer-Sheva. 342pp. p.90</ref>

In [[Aratashen]] ([[Armenia]]), 57 arsenical copper beads were discovered in the Shulaveri-Shomu context.<ref name="f401"/>

Dated to 5800-5300 BC, fragments of a copper bead have been found in [[Aruchlo]]. Three small vessels with copper residues were also found, and interpreted as [[crucible]]s by the excavators.<ref>Lyonnet, B., Guliyev, F., Helwing, B., Aliyev, T., Hansen, S., Mirtskhulava, G., 2012. Ancient Kura 2010–2011: The first two seasons of joint field work in the Southern Caucasus. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan 44, 2–190. p.85</ref> Also, at [[Göy-Tepe]], in the [[Tovuz district]] of Azerbaijan some metallurgy is attested in the Shulaveri-Shomu context.<ref name="f401">{{cite book | last=Courcier | first=Antoine | title=Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective | chapter=Ancient Metallurgy in the Caucasus From the Sixth to the Third Millennium BCE | publisher=Springer New York | publication-place=New York, NY | date=2014 | isbn=978-1-4939-3357-0 | doi=10.1007/978-1-4614-9017-3_22 | page=579–664}} -- [https://www.academia.edu/5789550/ at academia.edu]</ref> But it's only later, with the advent of Sioni culture, that metalwork becomes better established.

===Ritual===

Burials are relatively rare, and are mainly found under house floors or courtyards.{{sfn|Baumer|2021|p=35}} At the Mentesh Tepe site, one tomb contained the skeletons of 31 male and female individuals of various ages.{{sfn|Chataigner|2016}}

Anthropomorphic figurines of mainly seated women found in the sites may have been used for religious purposes relating to a fertility cult.{{sfn|Hamon|2008}}{{sfn|Baumer|2021|p=35}}

===Earliest grapes and winemaking===

[[File:A terracotta Kvevri used to ferment and age wine decorated with depictions of bunches of grapes, First half of the 6th millennium BC, from Khramis Didid Gora, National Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.jpg|thumb|right|6th millennium BC wine jar, discovered in Shulaveri, Georgia]]

The earliest evidence of domesticated grapes in the world has been found in the general "Shulaveri area", near the site of [[Shulaveri gora]], in [[Marneuli Municipality]], in southeastern [[Georgia (country)|Republic of Georgia]]. Specifically, the most recent evidence comes from [[Gadachrili gora]], near the village of Imiri in the same region; carbon-dating points to the date of about 6000 BC.{{sfn|Rusišvili|2010}}{{sfn|Boisseau|2022}}

Chemical analysis of organic compounds found in some of the numerous very high capacity pottery jars at Shulaveri-Shomu sites indicates that they contained wine, and were probably used as fermentation, maturation, and serving vessels. This evidence dates to around the early sixth millennium BC, providing the earliest evidence for winemaking and grape cultivation in the Near East.{{sfn|McGovern et al.|2017}}

==Geographical links==
Many of the characteristic traits of the Shulaverian material culture (circular [[mudbrick]] architecture, [[pottery]] decorated by plastic design, [[anthropomorphic]] female figurines, obsidian industry with an emphasis on production of long [[prismatic blade]]s) are believed to have their origin in the Near Eastern Neolithic ([[Hassuna]], [[Halafian|Halaf]]).{{sfn|Kiguradze|2001}}

The technology and typology of bone-based instruments are similar to those of the Middle East Neolithic material culture. A quern with 2 small hollows found in Shomutepe is similar to the one with more hollows detected in Khramisi Didi-Gora(Georgia). The similarities between the macrolithic tools and the use of ochre also bring Shulaveri–Shomu culture closer to the culture of [[Halaf culture|Halaf.]] Pestles and mortars found in Shulaveri–Shomu sites and [[Neolithic|Late Neolithic]] layers of Tell Sabi Abyad in [[Syria]] are also similar to each other.{{sfn|Hamon|2008}}

==See also==
*[[Trialeti culture]]
*[[Archaeology of Azerbaijan]]
*[[Prehistoric Armenia]]
*[[Prehistoric Georgia]]
*[[Kura-Araxes culture]]
*[[Goytepe archaeological complex]]

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