Red-Black Burnished Pottery of Western Asia and Cyprus

In Eastern Anatolia and in the Southern Caucasus the first appearance of red-black and black burnished ceramics was inextricably linked to the emergence of a large scale cultural phenomenon that developed in these same areas since, according to a well established traditional chronology, the mid-fourth millennium and which is generally known as the Kura-Araks culture. But the origins of these ceramic traditions, both from a geographical and chronological point of view are still widely debated.