Gap in Kura River Valley Settlement 4th-5th Millennium B.C.

So I am still trying to sort things out on the flood of Noah. I think Adam's line lived in the area of the Aras or Araxes river near the border of Turkey and Armenia. I simply can't find good information about continuity of occupation of this river valley during the period I am interested in, other than a cryptic note in one paper claiming a "sharp discontinuity" between the previous culture and the Kura-Araxes culture which came after it in the 4th Millennium B.C. (i.e. from 3,000 B.C. to 4,000 B.C.). That was promising because it was consistent with the scenario I proposed that the flood was aimed at the line of Adam, whose habitations were centered around the Aras river valley, roughly 4,000 B.C. or even a bit earlier. A sharp discontinuity fit with a scenario where they were wiped out, and others came later and occupied their former territory.

But that was just a note. It seems the river valley to the north of the Aras, the Kura, has gotten a lot more attention. On page five section 2.5 of this paper there is another interesting paragraph shows up:

"This attractive region was occupied by communities who took up farming and herding towards the end of the 7th mill. BCE at the latest (Lyonnet, 2007). Subsequent to this first period of settlement, during the 6th mill. BCE, several transformations affected both settlement patterns and lifestyles. For unknown reasons, archaeological sites dated to the 5th and 4th mill. BCE are barely visible in the archaeological record. At the beginning of the 4thmill. BCE, new types ofmonuments, such as visible burialmounds or Kurgans, appear"

So it was occupied by people advanced enough to be farming and herding from at least 6,000 B.C., and therefore quite probably earlier. This is surely one of the first agrarian and pastoral societies in the history of the earth. Is this the line of Adam? Some of their near-neighbors who had learned some of their advanced ways? Then the paper makes a vague reference to transformations affecting settlement patterns and lifestyles in the 6th millennium B.C. An increase in violence and corruption perhaps? They don't say. Then for a good chunk of the next two thousand years archaeological sites are "barely visible" in the record. When steady habitation re-appears in the 4th millennium B.C. it is a different culture- the Kura-Araxes culture. That sounds consistent with a flood wiping out settlements on the surface sometime between 3,000 B.C. and 4,999 B.C. Then being replaced by others because the original inhabitants were gone. That fits my timeline quite well.

Maybe I have the wrong valley, maybe the line of Adam was in the Kura valley rather than the Araxes which was just on the other side of the South Caucuses. Maybe they were in both and other places besides and those places will also show a "sharp discontinuity" in habitation. I am at the mercy of the archaeological community which is not oriented to look at things like this!

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