Tağlar Cave

Tağlar Cave
Tağlar mağarası
Location Azerbaijan Böyük Tağlar village, Khojavend Rayon, Azerbaijan.

Taghlar cave (Azerbaijani: Tağlar mağarası) – is a cave, where habituated a human of the Stone Age (Mousterian epoch).[1] The cave is located in Azerbaijan, in the southern part of Böyük Tağlar village, on the left shore of the Guruchay River.[2][3][4]

Beginning from 1963, archeological excavations had been carried out in the cave and more than 7 thousand of stone tools and more than 2 thousand animal bones were found out. A potter of the Middle, Bronze and Copper Ages were found out after the first layer.[5] Patterns of Mousterian culture had been found out between the 2nd and 6th layers. Numerous work-pieces for making tools, red, black, brown, grey, white and other colors had been found out in inventory of the cave. The cave was excavated by M.M.Huseynov.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Павел Иосифович Борисковский. (1979). Древнейшее прошлое человечества. Saint Petersburg: Наука. p. 131.
  2. "Таглар на советской карте".
  3. Таглар на советской карте
  4. "Tağlar mağarası".
  5. "Первобытнообщинный строй на территории Азербайджана". azerbembassy.org.

Literature

Coordinates: 39°36′18″N 46°57′54″E / 39.6049°N 46.9649°E / 39.6049; 46.9649

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