Damjili Cave

Damjili Cave
Damcılı mağarası
Location Azerbaijan Azerbaijan. Daş Salahlı village of Gazakh rayon.

Damjili (Azerbaijani: Damcılı mağarası) – is a half-circle formed cave in Azerbaijan, where human being dwelled in the Stone Age (Paleolithic and Mesolithic). It is settled in the South-Eastern part of Avey Mountain, extended from Daş Salahlı village of Gazakh rayon to the Khram River.[1] Damjili name was originated from weeping water through natural cracks on the cave walls (a word Damji (Azerbaijani: damcı) in translation from Azeri means drop).[2]

Damjili cave is the biggest cave among Avey Mountain caves. It is area is 360 square km. Front side of the cave is destroyed. From the other side the heights of the cave is 4 m. Various tools, arrowheads, knives, remains of hearth and bones of animals had been found out during excavations.[3]

Pieces of ochre had been found out in grotto of the cave, which indicates that people of those times understood colors and their correlation. These layers, where the ocher had been found, are mixed with more tardy ones which evidences that ocher was known even in Mousterian epoch.

References

  1. ↑ "Gazakh". Authentic Azerbaijan.
  2. ↑ "Archaeological Baseline Data" (PDF). BP.
  3. ↑ "Damjili stone age cave camp".

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/6/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.