Düzən Qarabağ Son Neolit dövründə (Kamiltəpə yaşayış yerinin materialları əsasında) Təvəkkül Əliyev

 
 
 

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Təvəkkül Əliyev, Barbara Helving 
Summary 
 
Lowland Karabakh during the Late Neolithic period 
(Reconstruction based on materials from Kamiltepe settlement) 
 
Tavakkul Aliyev, Barbara Helving 
The article considers the results of a comprehensive research carried out by a 
joint Azerbaijani-German archaeological expedition in Late Neolithic Kamiltepe 
settlement and its surroundings in Lowland Karabakh. During the excavations in 
Kamiltepe, there were found the remains of mud bricks of round and rectangular 
houses, household buildings, as well as a platform which aroused great interest 
among researchers of antiquity. Among the artifacts from Kamiltepe and from other 
synchronous monuments of the Mil steppe, there are labor tools made of river and 
basalt stones, limestone and obsidian, bone needles and punctures, clay slings, 
turquoise and agate beads, bird and animal bones, and a rich ceramic collection. 
Painted ceramics stand out especially. 
Remains of buildings and a complex of archaeological finds discovered in 
Kamiltepe show various aspects of the cultural and economic life of the inhabitants 
of Neolithic villages, allows us to reasonably reconstruct their achievements in the 
handicraft industries – in construction, pottery, stone carving, bone carving, etc. 
Analysis of plant remains, as well as the bones of fish, birds and animals, along with 
the cultural landscape, recreates the image of the flora and fauna of the Mil-Karabakh 
region in the middle of the 6th millennium BC. During this period, a sedentary 
lifestyle based on agriculture was formed in the region. 
Keywords: Lowland Karabakh, Kamiltepe, architecture, painted ceramics, 
economy