Recent excavations of Khirbet Kerak Ware contexts at the type site of Khirbet el-Kerak/Tel Bet Yerah and re-investigation of earlier finds from this site have permitted the technological and typological identification of a distinct category of zoomorphic figurines, associated exclusively with the characteristic red-black burnished Khirbet Kerak ceramics. Comparative study shows affinity between these figurines and similar objects found in different parts of the Kura-Araxes cultural community, from the Levant to the Iranian plateau. Consisting solely of horned cattle, we suggest that zoomorphic figurines represent a significant aspect of the Kura-Araxes cultural tradition in its expansion along the margins of the West Asian political and economic cores, during the final phase of the ‘secondary products revolution’.

最近在Khirbet el-Kerak / Tel Bet Yerah类型遗址上发掘了Khirbet Kerak Ware上下文，并对该遗址的早期发现进行了重新调查，这使得对动物形态雕像的不同类别进行了技术和类型学鉴定，并与该特性专门相关。红黑抛光的Khirbet Kerak陶瓷。比较研究表明，这些雕像与从黎凡特到伊朗高原的库拉-阿拉克斯文化社区不同地区发现的类似物体之间的亲和力。我们建议仅由角牛组成的人形雕像在“二次产品革命”的最后阶段沿着西亚政治和经济核心的边缘扩张时，代表了库拉-阿拉克斯文化传统的重要方面。