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 (end of the 2nd – beginning of the 1st millenniums B.C.) in the Mughan plain and the Talysh Mountains in northwest Iran and Southeast Azerbaijan.

Characteristics
The characteristics of the Mughan culture are:


 * 1) Graves in stone boxes and the graves.
 * 2) Graves can be single, clustered, or joint – men and women buried together, with a rich and poor inventory.
 * 3) Cattle-breeding, agriculture and maybe fishing were the main occupations.
 * 4) Implements and weapons were made of bronze and iron.
 * 5) Weapons were bronze and iron swords with a bronze two-faucet hilt and bronze poniards with a “framed handle” (of Western Asia type).
 * 6) 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.

Literature

 * Пассек Т. и Латынин Б., Очерк до-истории Северного Азербайджана, "Известия Общества обследования и изучения Азербайджана", Баку, 1926, No 3;
 * Morgan J., Mission scientifique en Perse, t. 1, P., 1894.