Göbəklitəpədən Plovdağa: Gilan çay vadisi arxeoloji abidələrinin materialları əsasında

Abstract

For many years, despite extensive archaeological research in the South Caucasus, in South Azerbaijan, in Central Asia, in the Altai Territory and in other regions where ancient Turkic tribes lived for many centuries, large religious buildings have not been found. The discovery and excavation of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey opened new pages in the study of the history and culture of the ancient tribes. This religious and cult complex has retained its original appearance, despite its 12 thousand years of age. This was facilitated by the fact that the ancient people, for some reason, buried a religious and cult complex with a layer of soil. It is interesting that similar monuments were found on the territory of Nakhchivan, which is geographically close to Eastern Anatolia. On the left bank of the Gilanchay, on the declivious downhills of Plovdag, there are several necropolises and settlements that cover the period from the Late Eneolithic (mid-4th millennium) to the middle of the 1st millennium BC. On the eastern outskirts of the Plovdag III necropolis, a religious and cult complex of the Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age was discovered. The complex consists of a central circular room and small round and quadrangular structures framing it. Near the entrance, two stone steles were found, about 1.7 m high. The complex itself is located in the center of a wide semicircular wall with "sacrificial" chambers. According to the plan and purpose, the cult-religious complex at the Plovdag III necropolis belongs to the group of monuments of Gobekli Tepe.