What is Trialeti culture?
{{Orphan|date=May 2009}} [[File:Influencedurartu1.PNG|right|thumb|250px|The territory of the Armenian language appears to have been roughly coincidental with that of the earlier non-IE Hurrian and closely related Urartian (with Dark shading). The poorly known and presumably related non-IE Etio language was to its north. Many of these languages occupied partially or wholly the earlier territory of the Kuro-Araxes culture (light shading). The nearest IE neighbors of the Armenians were the Hittites (and related Luvians and Palaic-speaking populations) who were not closely related to Armenian. Assyrian and Gutian are non IE languages. Burials with wheeled vehicles have been uncovered at Trialeti and Lchashen. <ref>“Armenians” in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture or EIEC, edited by J. P. Mallory and Douglas Q. Adams, published in 1997 by Fitzroy Dearborn.</ref>]] The '''Trialeti''' culture was seen around the 2nd millennium B.C.<ref>Munchaev 1994, p. 16; cf., Kushnareva and Chubinishvili 1963, pp. 16 ff.</ref> In the late 3rd millennium B.C. settlements of the [[Kura-Araxes culture]] began to be replaced by early Trialeti culture sites.<ref>The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia - Page 266 by Philip L. Kohl</ref> The Trialeti culture was the second culture to appear in the [[Caucasus]], after the Kura-Araxes culture.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.drummingnet.com/alekseev/ChapterVIIPart2.html | title=The Alekseev Manuscript - Chapter VII - Part II: Bronze Age in Eurasia | access-date=2007-09-28 | archive-date=2012-12-06 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20121206000842/http://www.drummingnet.com/alekseev/ChapterVIIPart2.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> The Trialeti culture shows close ties with the highly-developed cultures of the ancient world, particularly with the Aegean.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitgeorgia.ge/English/Tours/Other_tours/Archaeological_Tour.htm|title=Trialeti culture|publisher=|access-date=2007-09-28|archive-date=2007-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210212/http://www.visi