Parallels are found in the southeastern Trans-Caucasia, and in the northeastern Mesopotamia, especially based on the construction techniques and the lithic and bone tools.

The Shulaveri-Shomutepe culture, that developed in the neighbouring Kura basin and the Artsakh steppe, does not have close parallels with the early Aratashen artifacts.

Here we see the influence of the Late Chalcolithic horizon of approximately 4300–3500 BC in the whole of northern Mesopotamia, such as: This pottery has many Transcaucasian, or Sioni culture features.

[6] Close to Aratashen, at Khatunark, one fragment of copper ore (malachite) has been discovered in a level dated to the first half of the sixth millennium BCE.

[8] Equally early metalwork has also been discovered in the excavations at Aruchlo in Georgia, and at Mentesh Tepe in the Tovuz district of modern-day Azerbaijan, and at several other sites in Southern Caucasus.