Chaff-Faced Ware culture

Geographical range	Turkey, South Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Syria
Period	Late Chalcolithic
Dates	4500 BC - 3500 BC
Major sites	Amuq, Leyla-Tepe culture, Areni-1 cave
Preceded by	Ubaid period, Shulaveri–Shomu culture
Followed by	Kura–Araxes culture

Chaff-Faced Ware (sometimes abbreviated as CFW, and alternately called Chaff-Tempered Ware) is a Late Chalcolithic (4300-3500BCE) pottery which has found from Cilicia to the South Caucasus. In the South Caucasus, its variant is known as Leyla-Tepe culture, while in northern Mesopotamia it is usually referred to as Amuq F pottery.^[1]

Origin

Initially, Chaff-Faced Ware was associated with northern Mesopotamia, Syria and a migration of Uruk people,^[2] but recently the discovery of large number of Chaff-Faced Ware sites in the South Caucasus has changed the perceptions about its origins. Catherine Marro concluded that the core region from where the ware emerged was between the Euphrates and the Kura basin.^[3] The tempering chaff in the pottery was frequent in South Caucasian Neolithic sites.^[4]

See also

• Leyla-Tepe culture
• Amuq
• Areni-1 cave

References