Böyük Qafqazın ətəklərində daş dövrünə dair aparılmış arxeoloji tədqiqatlara dair (2000-2020)

Abstract

The article is devoted to archaeological research of the Stone Age, carried out in the southern foothills of the Greater Caucasus. It is known that studies of the Stone Age in Azerbaijan began for the first time with the registration discovered by S.N. Zamyatin and M.M. Husey-nov in 1953 of the Paleolithic site of Damdjily near the village of Dash Salakhly of the Gazakh region. Research was carried out here in 1956–1957. Before that, under the leaders-hip of M.M. Huseynov, M.M. Mansurov, A.G. Jafarov and A.A. Zeynalov, 8 caves, more than 20 sites of the open type of the Paleolithic period in the Lesser Caucasus, Lankaran, in the mountain depression between the middle reaches of the Araxes and the Kura were exp-lored. As a result of these studies, the lower, middle and partially upper cultural layer of the Paleolithic was recorded, while for many years the southern foothills of the Greater Caucasus remained outside these studies. In 2005, during exploration archaeological work led by A. A. Zeynalov in the Sheki-Zagatala and Guba-Khachmaz zones, on the south-eastern and north-eastern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Range, the first finds of the Palaeolithic period were discovered. As a result of archaeological research led by M.M. Mansurov in Shamakha, Ismayilli and Gabala regions at the end of 2011 in this region, A.A. Zeynalov together with Korean specialists in the Gabala region in the same year, as well as M.M. Mansurov and N.M. Museibov in 2012 and 2014 respectively, more than 30 Acheulean and Mousterian culture specimens have been recorded.As a result of research in the Sheki-Zagatala and Guba-Khachmaz zones, it was concluded that mudflows from the upper reaches of the Greater Caucasus were washed away from sites of the Palaeolithic period.