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: # 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.

References

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. {{Azerbaijan topics Archaeology of the Caucasus Archaeological cultures of West Asia Bronze Age cultures of Asia Iron Age cultures of Asia Archaeological cultures in Azerbaijan Archaeological cultures in Iran Indo-European archaeological cultures Ancient history of Iran History of Talysh