Ceramics with the painted and relief ornament of middle chalcolithic age of Nakhchyvan

Abstract

The research of painted and relief ornamentation pottery from Middle Chalcolithic Age monuments of Nakhchivan shown that arts and crafts of this period developed on the basis of traditions of the previous periods and to blush new coloring. With such ornaments on number increased in this period of ware and are made by high art taste. Clay products, being an integral part of life, reflected also ideological representations of ancient people and in the majority of cases had protective value. Art features of the clay products Nakhchivan are closely connected with similar objects of the Southern Azerbaijan and demonstrate that they are created by related ethnos.