[4] According to 14C data, there is a clear break in settlement after 5400/5300 BC at this and other sites of the Shulaveri-Shomutepe group.
[4] Early copper metallurgy has been documented here and at some other related sites, such as Göy-Tepe, and Mentesh Tepe in the Tovuz district of Azerbaijan.
Three small vessels with copper residues were also found, and interpreted as crucibles by the excavators.
"Compositional analyses of some of these ornaments and small tools revealed that they are made of unalloyed copper".
[7] In particular, in Aratashen (Armenia), 57 arsenical copper beads were discovered in the Shulaveri-Shomu context.