Chalcolithic cultures of Asia

archaeological culture

archaeological culture

archaeological culture from the Caucasus region

Late Neolithic/Eneolithic culture that existed on the territory of Transcaucasia

thumb|Copper sceptre from the [[Nahal Mishmar hoard (at Hecht Museum, Haifa)]] thumb|Ghassulian ossuary, ca. 3500 BC, [[Canaan (at the British Museum)]] thumb|The Ghassulian star

archaeological culture

find-complexes in the western Ganges-Yamuna doab in the Indian subcontinent

archaeological culture

Prehistoric culture of the Caucasus

The Darkveti-Meshoko culture, also known as the Pricked Pearls Pottery culture, is a Chalcolithic culture spread in the Western Caucasus, named after major sites of Darkveti (Imereti region) and Meshoko (Adygea). First sites of this culture were discovered in 1958 by Russian anthropologists, but were at first considered to be sites of Maykop culture. In 1980s the site of Svobodnoe was discovered, which bore a close resemblance to the site of Meshoko. An argument among anthropologists culminated in attributing the Svobodnoe and Meshoko sites to a culture separate from Maykop, the attribution of