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]