Caucasus in 6000: Early farming — Section 607: Early farming

Mountain isolation plus long settlement — not a racial museum. A discarded racial category. Do not confuse it with Caucasus peoples. Georgia’s qvevri tradition is among the world’s oldest attested wine cultures. Modern wars are political; culture pages are not scoreboards of nations. When reading the “Early farming” stage inside the Caucasus atlas entry, recording both the reference period and the operating boundary around figure 6000 prevents common misinterpretations in real-world decisions.

Stuffed vegetables, breads and herb pastes cross community lines. Armenian, Georgian and others are distinct literary traditions. Anatolia; Persianate; writing-systems atlas. See diversity pages for clines — never as country-level score talk. Early state Christianization traditions. Cross-checking field checklists against the comparison lab shows that metric 6000 under “Early farming” for Caucasus never acts in isolation; it shifts alongside structural constraints and local standards.

Caliphates and successors contest valleys. Relief fragmented polities and preserved language islands. Empires taxed valleys without erasing local law everywhere. Kartvelian, Nakh-Daghestanian, Abkhaz-Adyghe and Indo-European languages neighbor. Russian and Turkish remain regional lingua francas in places.