Garakopaktapa Explained

Monument Name:Garakopaktapa
Location:Fuzuli Rayon, Azerbaijan
Type:Settlement
Complete:Bronze Age

Garakopaktapa (Azerbaijani: Qaraköpəktəpə) is an ancient multilayer settlement[1] of the Middle Bronze Age epoch, located in a basin of the Guruchay and Kondalanchay Rivers, near Fuzuli Rayon, Azerbaijan.[2]

The monument was discovered by Azerbaijani archaeologist Gudrat Ismayilov during 1961–1971 excavations.[2] Items of material culture of the Middle Bronze Age which began in Azerbaijan from the second half of the 3rd millennium BC were found out.[3] Various collected materials characterize the culture of the tribes lived in the Mil-Karabakh steppe during that period.[2]

Ismayilov ascribed the Garabulag kurgan cemetery located on the right coast of the Kondalan River and investigated in 1898 by Alexei Ivanovski, to this settlement.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Древнейшие государства Кавказа и Средней Азии. Геннадий Андреевич Кошеленко, Юрий Федорович Буряков, Институт археологии (Академия наук СССР).. «Наука». 1985. 493.
  2. Book: Культура эпохи средней бронзы Азербайджана. Вели Алиев.. «Элм». 1991. 253.
  3. Book: Известия: Серия истории, философии и права. Академия наук Азербайджанской ССР.. «Элм». 1979.