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Multi-periodSite Name: Ovchular Tepe Alternative Name: Ovçelar Tepesi, Ovchular Tepesi
Country: Azerbaijan Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sharur
Latitude: 39.592114N  Longitude: 45.067998E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Ancient Settlement in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. A settlement dating from the Lower Palaeolithic associated with some of the oldest salt mines in the world.

The site of Ovchular Tepesi is located at the top of a natural hill in the valley of the Arpaçay River (Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan). This settlement is composed of Late Chalcolithic (LC) and Early Bronze Age (EBA) occupations layers. The site has been excavated since 2006 within the frame of a French-Azeri joint project.
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Refuse disposals in the Chalcolithic pits of Ovchular Tepesi by Andy B on Thursday, 01 September 2011
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Refuse disposals in the Chalcolithic pits of Ovchular Tepesi (Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan)
Mr Rémi Berthon (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany and UMR 7209, MNHN, France) Zsófia Kovács (University of Debrecen, Hungary) Wim Van Neer (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium) George Willcox (CNRS, France) Margareta Tengberg (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) Thomas Cucchi (CNRS, France)

The site of Ovchular Tepesi is located at the top of a natural hill in the valley of the Arpaçay River (Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan). This settlement is composed of Late Chalcolithic (LC) and Early Bronze Age (EBA) occupations layers. The site has been excavated since 2006 within the frame of a French-Azeri joint project.

The scope of this paper is to present the faunal and botanical material from pits of the earliest Late Chalcolithic occupation layer. This layer is characterized by semi-subterranean houses and associated pits. The houses as well as the pits were dug into the natural deposits of the hill. Occupation layers belonging to this period have been found throughout the excavated area (ca. 1ha). According to 14C dates, this layer is dated between 4360 and 3960 BC (cal.). The pits contain faunal and botanical remains as well as lithic, bone and ceramic artefacts.

The soil excavated in the pits has been floated in order to collect the charred remains. Then the heavy fraction has been sieved through an 8mm, 2mm and 1mm mesh. Up to now, more than 500 liters of pit-soil has been processed, it yielded an important collection of mammal remains (including rodents, mainly mice mus musculus sp.) and fish remains, as well as botanical remains.

The aim of this paper is to investigate, through the study of botanical and faunal remains, the nature of the occupation at this site, the subsistence system, and the relation of this community with its environment.

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Lower Paleolithic tools found recently during excavations at Ovchular Tepe by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 31 August 2011
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Ovchular Tepe habitation area in Sharur District of Nakhchivan is one of the most ancient settlements of primitive people in the world.

This was announced by heads of the joint Azerbaijani-French archaeological expedition which conducts research in this area.

'The ancient tools which relate to the period of the Lower Paleolithic found recently during excavations at Ovchular Tepe testify to this,' said senior official at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of Nakhchivan Branch of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Anar Bakhshaliyev.

'Archaeological research in Ovchular Tepe has been held since 2006. Until now it was known that Ovchular Tepe was inhabited from the Late Stone Age. However, studies conducted in this archaeological site give reason to believe that ancient people settled here even earlier – 500,000-300,000 years ago,' Bakhshaliyev added.

The expert said that the Gazma cave, where shelter of primitive people belonging to the middle Paleolithic period was found, was considered to be the oldest habitation area in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic to date. "Samples of material culture discovered during the current excavations indicate that Ovchular Tepe, populated from the Lower Paleolithic period, is the oldest in Nakhchivan and one of the most ancient human settlements in world in general," the scholar noted.

"The findings are very interesting. For example, we have found skeleton of a child in burial in a pitcher next to which three copper axes were placed. These are the oldest metal axes found in the Caucasus. Their total weight is about 1 kg of metal. This was a very valuable gift for the burial because at the time metallurgy was just in its infancy," said Catherine Marro, another head of joint archaeological expedition, scholar from the National Center for Scientific Research of France.

"Earlier it was assumed that the Kura-Araz culture, which is inherent in a given area and which then gradually spread to Eastern Anatolia and Syria, is rooted in the IV millennium BC. However, after this discovery it became clear that the Kura-Araz culture dates back to V century BC. This is a very important discovery," the French archaeologist added.

People who lived in this area were very well versed in industry, she noted. "In addition, the findings discovered during research on Duzdag salt mines located at some distance from this archaeological site show that people – natives of Kura-Araz culture - also developed the Duzdag Mine. This is a very interesting result.”

She stated that numerous items and fragments of pottery, dating from the late Paleolithic era, are also found in Duzdag along with samples of the Kur-Araz culture.

"This suggests that the development of mines in Duzdag started at the very least in the V century BC. Therefore Duzdag is the oldest of the salt mines in the world known to science until now. Consequently, the oldest salt mine is located here - in Nakhchivan," the French scholar noted.

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