Gobustan preserve is located in the eastern part of Azerbaijan, on the territory of Boyukdash, Kichikdash and Jingirdagh Mountains of  Big  Gobustan. Gobustan preserve is widely known with its lack engravings, monuments of primitive culture not only in our republic but also on the world scale.

Gobustan

These monuments are ancient drawings, cupules for prepar fluid diet and gathering of rain water, two-sided hollows for tying-up animals, signs, tamgas, ancient inscriptions and so on. Revealed and registered on more than a thousand rocks and stones these monuments were ereated by an ancient man and are the reflection of his agricultural and intellectual activity Petroglyphs of Gobustan are artistic chronicles of the past. They hear a great importance both forthe study of the phe history of humanity and for the I study of lots of spheres of primitive art:graphics, music, dances, the art of stone processing, etc.

Gobustan monuments cover the period of approximately 20 thousands years beginning since the end of Upper Paleolith till the beginning of our era.

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