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Chalcolithic settlement in the area that is dated to the first half of the 5th millennium BC. It is located about 5km south of the Kultepe site. Nakhchivan Tepe is an archaeological site where the painted ceramics of the
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indicate that "the adoption of a productive economy in the South
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Kultepe (Kul'tepe) is the place where the first items made of copper–arsenic alloys, dating back to the 4th millennium BC, were found in the South Caucasus.
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The local method of arsenic copper production was confirmed by results of chemical investigation and casting forms and the remains of casting discovered there.
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in the last quarter of the 4th millennium, it seems that the peoples that settled at Kültepe I were culturally distinct from those that settled at Kültepe II.
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