Nakhchivan culture

The main center of painted pottery were Nakhchivan and the Arpachay Valley, in Anatolia, Urmia lake basin and  the South Caucasus.

[9] Captain N. Fyodorov conducted excavations on behalf of the Archeological Commission in Nakchivan where he found burials with painted pottery dated to the end of the 2nd millennium BC.

Excavations continued in the 1960s, painted pottery of Kultepe II, as well as Guruchay and Kondelenchay river basins were investigated.

[3] In 1951, the archeological expedition organized by the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR under the leadership of O. Habibullayev conducted research in the Kultepe I and found painted dishes here.

[9] In 2008, the study conducted by Nakhchivan branch of the ANAS and Georgian University of the USA under the leadership of V. Bakhshaliyev identified that the painted pots found in the Oghlanqala settlement belonged to the Iron Age.

[3][8][7] Encountering similar painted vessel patterns of Nakhchivan were found in the Van and Urmia Lake basin, northeastern Anatolia, and the Mil-Mugan plains around Goyche indicates that these regions shared a mutual culture.

[13][14] The Middle Chalcolithic painted bowl found in the Shortepe also reminisced the Halaf and Ubaid traditions because of influence of these culture.