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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
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