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Stone Age in Azerbaijan, the Glossary

Stone Age in Azerbaijan is divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods.^[1]

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Acheulean

Acheulean (also Acheulian and Mode II), from the French after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by the distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand axes" associated with Homo erectus and derived species such as Homo heidelbergensis.

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Alikomektepe

Alikomektepe (Əliköməktəpə) is an ancient settlement located in Jalilabad District (Azerbaijan), in the Mughan plain, belonging to the Chalcolithic period, dating to.

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Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia

Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia (Археология, Этнография и Антропология Евразии) is a bilingual peer-reviewed academic journal covering anthropological and archaeological studies on Eurasia.

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Azerbaijan in antiquity

Azerbaijan in antiquity covers the history of the territory of today's Azerbaijan in the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout much of Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, as well as the Caucasus.

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Azykh

Azykh (Azıx) or Azokh (Ազոխ) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Azykh Cave

Azykh Cave (Azıx mağarası), also referred to as Azokh Cave, is a six-cave complex in Azerbaijan, known as a habitation site of prehistoric humans.

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Azykhantrop

The Azykhantrop, or Azykh Man, is the lower jaw of a presumably female Homo heidelbergensis pre-Neanderthal.

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Baku

Baku (Bakı) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus region.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Bronze and Iron Age in Azerbaijan

Bronze Age in Azerbaijan began in the second half of the 4th millennium BC and ended in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC, while the Iron Age commenced in approximately 7-6th centuries BC.

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Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.

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Caucasus Mountains

The Caucasus Mountains is a mountain range at the intersection of Asia and Europe.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.

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Chalcedony

Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite.

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Chalcolithic

The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper.

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Damjili Cave

Damjili (Damcılı mağarası.) – is a half-circular shaped cave site (6400-6000 BC) in Azerbaijan, where evidence of prehistoric human presence during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic was discovered.

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Early Middle Ages in Azerbaijan

In the history of Azerbaijan, the Early Middle Ages lasted from the 3rd to the 11th century.

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Flint

Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.

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Gegham mountains

Gegham mountains (or Gegham Ridge; Geġama lernasheghta) are a range of mountains in Armenia.

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Gobustan District

Gobustan District (Qobustan rayonu) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan.

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Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve

Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve (Qobustan dövlət tarixi-bədii qoruğu) is located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about southwest of the center of Baku.

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Goytepe archaeological complex

Goytepe; Göy-Tepe, is a neolithic archaeological complex located in the Tovuz District of Azerbaijan.

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High Middle Ages in Azerbaijan

The High Middle Ages, or Classic Feudalism Period in what constitutes the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, lasted from around the 11th century to the 15th century AD.

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History of Azerbaijan

The history of Azerbaijan is understood as the history of the region now forming the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Human

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.

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Karabakh

Karabakh (Qarabağ; Ġarabaġ) is a geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura and Aras.

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Kültepe

Kültepe (Turkish: ash-hill), also known as Kanesh or Nesha, is an archaeological site in Kayseri Province, Turkey, inhabited from the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC, in the Early Bronze Age.

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Kültəpə

Kültəpə (also rendered as Kultepe, Aşağı Gültəpə, Gültəpə, Kyul'tepe, Kul'tepe, and Kultepe-1) is a settlement dating from the Neolithic, a village and municipality in the Babek District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.

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Lerik District

Lerik District (Lerik rayonu, script) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan.

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Lesser Caucasus

The Lesser Caucasus or Lesser Caucasus Mountains, also called Caucasus Minor, is the second of the two main ranges of the Caucasus Mountains, of length about.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Lower Paleolithic

The Lower Paleolithic (or Lower Palaeolithic) is the earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.

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Mammadali Huseynov

Mammadali Murad Oglu Huseynov (Məmmədəli Murad oğlu Hüseynov) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet archaeologist.

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Mesolithic

The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

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Microlith

A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide.

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Middle Paleolithic

The Middle Paleolithic (or Middle Palaeolithic) is the second subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Mongol invasions of Azerbaijan

The Mongol invasions and conquests of the territory that now comprises the Republic of Azerbaijan took place during the 13th and 14th centuries and involved large-scale raids.

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Mousterian

The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia.

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Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic

The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası) is a landlocked exclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Neanderthal

Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Neolithic Revolution

The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible.

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Obsidian

Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth.

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Olduvai Gorge

The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropological localities in the world; the many sites exposed by the gorge have proven invaluable in furthering understanding of early human evolution.

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Osmantəpə

Osmantəpə is an early Neolithic settlement near Kükü village, in the Shahbuz District of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.

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Qazax District

Qazax District (Qazax rayonu) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan.

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Qıraq Kəsəmən

Qıraq Kəsəmən (also, Ashaga Kyrakhkesaman, Krakhkesaman, and Kyrakh Kesaman) is a village and municipality in the Agstafa Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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Quartz

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).

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Shomu-tepe

Shomu-tepe (Şomutəpə) is an ancient settlement in the Agstafa District of Azerbaijan.

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Shulaveri–Shomu culture

The Shulaveri–Shomu culture, also known as the Shulaveri-Shomutepe-Aratashen culture, is an archaeological culture that existed on the territory of present-day Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, as well as parts of northern Iran during the Late Neolithic/Eneolithic.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Age_in_Azerbaijan

Also known as Stone-Age Azerbaijan.

, Quartz, Shomu-tepe, Shulaveri–Shomu culture, South Caucasus, Stone Age, Taghlar Cave, Upper Paleolithic, Zangezur Mountains, Zar Cave, 4th millennium BC, 6th millennium BC.

Stone Age in Azerbaijan, the Glossary

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See also

Mesolithic sites

Neolithic sites

Paleolithic sites

Stone Age of Azerbaijan

Stone age sites

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