It consists of a simple interment in a pit in which the individual was laid in a flexed position. By contrast the other burial, uncovered in Trench M15 in 1997, was placed in a shaft grave almost 2 m deep. At the base of the shaft a skeleton was found dismembered except for the lower arms. Typologically, the vessel appears to be a prototype of those found in the early Trialeti kurgan burials. Standard Kura-Araxes pottery, including tall jars with strongly defined divisions of rim, neck and girth, continued to be manufactured.
Lids now favour a central depression on their top surface.
Burial 1 in Trench M16 has both Kura-Araxes and Trialeti elements. Following the Kura-Araxes tradition the deceased was laid in in a crouched position on a bed of stones in a small pit grave. A round-bellied, black incised jar was placed in the grave that also included a bronze lunate hair ring found near the hip. Burial 2 in Trench M16 is different. The bones of the deceased in this grave were partly disarticulated and found deposited at the base of a shaft 1.75 m deep.