Areni-1 Cave

In recent years, the expeditions of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia revealed late Eneolithic monuments (Nerkin Godedzor 1, Areni-1) in the southern regions of the Republic of Armenia. - ditsiyami, however, already having typological signs and forms close to Kuro-Araks. In this cultural context, however, in a limited amount, there are also classical examples of the Kuro-Araks culture itself, despite the fact that the Kuro-Araks layer as such was not recorded. Similar manifestations make us think about the validity of arguments regarding the local origin of the Kuro-Araks culture from the Eneolithic, as well as attempts to revise the chronological framework of its initial stages up to placing them within the Late Eneolithic (a qualitatively new return to the "Kuro-Araks Eneolithic"). In this regard, the data obtained during the preliminary study of the late Eneolithic ceramic material Areni-1 are of great interest and allow to make some observations regarding the questions of the genesis of the Kuro-Arak culture ceramics.