Archaeological culture · c. 6000–5000 BCE
Shulaveri–Shomu culture
The first farming culture of the South Caucasus, in what is now Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Its villages of mudbrick houses have yielded many kinds of wheat and barley, lentils and peas, and cultivated grape, with traces in pottery of some of the earliest known winemaking.
Tools were made of local obsidian, bone and antler.
See Shulaveri–Shomu culture on the map in 6000 BCE
- On the map
- 6000–5000 BCE
How we know
No writing existed; everything comes from excavated sites, their tools and pottery, and radiocarbon dates.