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Ilanlitapa ancient settlement
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    Aghdam, AZ0214
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Ilahlitepe settlement is located in Gervend village of Aghdam region. Examples of farm-culture belong to the period from Eneolith to Iron Age. An excavation had taken place in Ilahlitepe which covered a 220 sq.ms area in 1967-1968. There are remainders of dwelling house and farm constructions built in the settlement that have been revealed. The buildings were constructed of flat-rough and ordinary rectangular bricks. The dwelling houses are four-cornered and semicircular; the farm constructions are close to them. There were two round shaped small buildings found. The walls and floors of the buildings where faced with clay; tracks of red color have been registered in the some places. Some areas in the settlement were polished fill shining. Ceramics products were prepared of plant mixture with clay; their surface was painted in light yellow and red and then polished. But plates without color and polishing also were often found. Some of the pitcher kind of jars had been adorned with round and oval hachure using pushing technique. The upper part of one of the dark brown colored plates had been adorned with applied ornament.

Buildings having round and right-angled architecture are characteristic Azerbaijanis ancient dwelling houses. Round shaped architecture is characteristic for territories from middle flows of the Kur River till Araz River. Right-angled houses found in Ganja-Gazakh, Mil-Karabakh and Nakhchivan relate to the last stage of the Eneolit period. Both types of architecture were found in Ilahlitepe. In the monuments like Ilahlitepe, Kultepe obsidian has the prevalence. Investigation of labor tools found in this settlement show that ancient ploughers used Ilahlitepe obsidian deposit. Right-angled houses, bone hoes are typical for Ilahlitepe. Barrows have been found in Ilahlitepe (B.M.Celilov, A.S.Elesgerov). The majority of these barrows relate to late Bronze – recent Iron period.

http://www.azerbaijanarcheology.com/2010/04/history-of-study-of-bronze-age-tumulus-from-azerbaija/

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