EARLY BRONZE AGE WORSHIPS (Based on the materials of I Makhta)

Abstract

An analysis of residential, agricultural and religious buildings, numerous archaeological materials found in archeological excavations plays an important role in the study of religious ideological views, social and public relations, welfare and agriculture of people of ancient times. Despite the study of numerous monuments of the Early Bronze Age in Azerbaijan and neighboring areas, a number of problems, especially determining of directions of ideological and spiritual culture, await their research. The monuments of Early Bronze Age monuments and their materials, investigated on the territory of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, play a leading role in solving a number of problems. Makhta I, Makhta II, Arabyengidzha, Shortepe, Dasharkh, Kultepe I, Kultepe II, Khalaj, Ovchulartapa can be mentioned as monuments of Kura-Araxes culture on the territory of Nakhchivan. Agricultural buildings, lots of pottery products, animal bones, bone tools, clay figurines and etc. have been discovered in each of these settlements besides residential buildings. The study of monuments of the Early Bronze Age shows that besides residential and agricultural buildings there were also special buildings - temples for worship and religious rituals.