Of the Middle Bronze Age (MBA, 2400–1500 BCE) burials excavated in the Qızqala cemetery of Naxçıvan, Azerbaijan, the remains found in kurgan CR8 provide an exceptional representation of the mortuary identity of the adult male interred within. The Dərələyəz Mountains surrounding the Şərur Valley were a culturally charged landscape on which both the living resident mobile pastoralists and the mortuary monuments to their ancestors coexisted and negotiated their shared community identity. Through detailed examination of the location and contents of kurgan CR8, this paper demonstrates how the mortuary setting and dress of a single elite member of the Qızqala community were fashioned by funerary participants to represent the identity of the interred. Such constructed mortuary identity may be crafted to perpetuate or alter how the deceased is remembered by the surviving community. The fashioning of mortuary identities thus serves as a means of negotiating the larger community identity and social organization. By integrating perspectives drawn from the funerary structure, goods, and human remains of kurgan CR8, this paper balances the fashioned identity of the interred with the current understanding of the broader MBA society in the South Caucasus. 1