Research Article
Year 2017,
Issue: 20, 11 - 26, 01.03.2017
Abstract
Lower Paleolithic site of Cave Azykh was discovered in Azerbaijan in 1960. Proceeding from Cave Azykh’s lower
layers’ differences from the “classical” Oldowan, M. M. Guseynov singled out a new culture, a “Kuruchay” one.
One of the criteria for singling out the new culture was the discovery of large, up to 4-4.5-kilo two-hand choppers M.
M. Guseynov called “gigantolites.” Several decades later, the “Kuruchay culture”-forming base - large two-hand
gigantolite tools - were discovered not only at the Lower Paleolithic site of Garaja near the Mingechavir reservoir
300 kilometers north of Azykh but also at Central Dagestan’s Lower Paleolithic sites far away from the site of Azykh.
The Lower Paleolithic sites discovered in the Southern Caucasus and throughout the Caucasus prove that the
migration ways of most ancient populations of hominids were diverse. After having penetrated the Caucasus about
2 million years ago, most ancient hominids moved northwards through at least two directions. They moved towards
Azykh and farther straight northwards through Garaja towards a Dagestan complex of Lower Paleolithic sites. The
other migration way led towards Dmanisi and farther northwards as well.
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Year 2017,
Issue: 20, 11 - 26, 01.03.2017
Abstract
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- AMIRKHANOV, H.A. 2013. “Orudiya-gigantolity v industrii Oldovana Dagestana”, Rossiyskaya Arheologiya 3: 5-12.
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- ZEYNALOV, A.A. 2015. “Azyh krov dlya treh vidov roda Homo”, AMEAN-nın Xeberleri. İçtimai elmlər seriyası 1: 10-17.
- ZEYNALOV, A.A. / MANSUROV, M.M. / MUSEIBLI, N.A. 2015. “Noviye paleoliticheskiye mestonahojdeniya na yuzhnykh otrogah Bolshogo Kavkazskogo hrebta”, AMEAN-nın Xeberleri. İçtimai elmlər seriyası 2: 103-113.
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| Primary Language | English |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Palaeolithic Age Archeology |
| Journal Section | Research Articles |
| Authors | |
| Publication Date | March 1, 2017 |
| Submission Date | November 29, 2016 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2017 Issue: 20 |
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