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.[1]
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.[2]
Cattle-breeding, agriculture and maybe fishing were the main occupations.[3]
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.
