The Mughan culture or the Talish-Mugan culture is an archeological culture of the late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age epoch (end of the 2nd – beginning of the 1st millenniums B.C.) in the Mugan plain and the Talysh Mountains in northwest Iran and Southeast Azerbaijan.
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Characteristics
The characteristics of the Mughan culture are:
- Graves in stone boxes and in the graves.
- Graves can be single, clustered, 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 “framed handle” (of Western Asia type).
- Pottery was made by hand. A basket-shaped “censer” and dishes in 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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