41°19′22″N 45°15′54″E / 41.32278°N 45.26500°E
Soyuqbulaq | |
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  Soyuqbulaq | |
| Coordinates: 41°19′22″N 45°15′54″E / 41.32278°N 45.26500°E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| Rayon | Agstafa |
| Municipality | Köçvəlili |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZT) |
Soyuqbulaq (also, Soyuq Bulaq) is a village in the Agstafa Rayon of Azerbaijan. It forms part of the municipality of Köçvəlili.[1]
In 2006, a French–Azerbaijani team discovered nine kurgans at the cemetery of Soyuqbulaq. They were dated to the beginning of the fourth millennium BC, which makes it the oldest kurgan cemetery in Transcaucasia.[2] Similar kurgans have been found at Kavtiskhevi, Kaspi Municipality, in central Georgia.
Several other archaeological sites seem to belong to the same ancient cultural tradition as Soyuq Bulaq. They include Berikldeebi, Kavtiskhevi, Leilatepe, Boyuk Kesik, and Poylu, Agstafa, and are characterized by pottery assemblages "mainly or totally in the North Mesopotamian tradition".[3][4]
- ^ "Belediyye Informasiya Sistemi" (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on September 24, 2008.
- ^ Romano, Licia (2010). Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East: Excavations, surveys and restorations : reports on recent field archaeology in the Near East. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 359. ISBN 978-3447062169.
- ^ Marro 2007, 78
- ^ Mariya Ivanova, The Black Sea and the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Near East and Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2013 ISBN 1107245044 p 118