Jar-Burial Culture

Jar-Burial grave in Azerbaijan State Museum of History.

Jar-Burial grave in Azerbaijan State Museum of History (found in Qəbələ)

Jar-Burial Culture (Russian: Кувшинных погребении культура - kuvshinnykh pogrebenij kulturа), an archaeological culture that was widespread in the second century B.C. to the eighth century A.D. in the basins of the Kura and Araks rivers in Transcaucasia, particularly in Caucasian Albania. The culture was characterized by the burial of the dead in a strongly flexed position on their sides in large clay jars. The burial inventory contained articles made of metal (bronze and primarily iron tools and weapons and bronze, silver, and gold ornaments), wood, stone, clay, glass, and paste. Roman, Arsacid, and Sassanid coins have been found in later burials. The Jar-Burial culture belonged to a settled farming population, which also engaged in stock raising, hunting, fishing, and the production of handicrafts.

See also

• Jar-burials

References

• Ivashchenko, M. “Kuvshinnye pogrebeniia Azerbaidzhana i Gruzii.” Izvestiia AN Azerbaidzhanskoi SSR, 1947, no. 1.
• Kaziev, S. M. AVbom kuvshinnykh pogrebenii. Baku, 1960.
• Golubkina, T. I. “Kul’tura kuvshinnykh pogrebenii v Azerbaidzhane.” In the collection Tr. Muzeia istorii Azerbaidzhana, vol. 4. Baku, 1961.

External links

• Jar-Burial Culture in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia