Leyla-Tepe culture

Leyla-Tepe culture

Ceramic vessel from the site of Leyla-Tepe, near Quzanlı, Aghdam District of modern day Azerbaijan
Geographical range	South Caucasus
Period	Chalcolithic
Dates	circa 4350 BCE — circa 4000 BCE
Major sites	Leyla-Tepe
Preceded by	Shulaveri–Shomu culture
Followed by	Kura–Araxes culture

The Leyla-Tepe culture (Azerbaijani: Leylatəpə mədəniyyəti) of the South Caucasus belongs to the Chalcolithic era. It got its name from the site in the Agdam District of modern-day Azerbaijan. Its settlements were distributed on the southern slopes of Central Caucasus, from 4350 until 4000 B.C.

Monuments of the Leyla-Tepe were first located in the 1980s by I. G. Narimanov, a Soviet archaeologist. In the 2000s, attention to the monuments was inspired by the risk of their damage due to the construction of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline and the South Caucasus pipeline.