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<< Our Photo Pages >> Gobustan Rock Art - Rock Art in Azerbaijan

Submitted by AlexHunger on Tuesday, 08 July 2008  Page Views: 6239

Rock ArtSite Name: Gobustan Rock Art Alternative Name: Gobustan National Park
Country: Azerbaijan
NOTE: This site is 48.384 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Gobustan  Nearest Village: Gobustan
Latitude: 40.111780N  Longitude: 49.378270E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
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
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Gobustan Rock Art
Gobustan Rock Art submitted by h_fenton : Site in Azerbaijan: Photo showing location of one of the main excavated rock shelters at Gobustan 14 May 2008 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cup and Ring marks / Rock Art in Azerbaijan

This is main site for the rock shelters and petroglyphs that is sort of set up for tourists, with a museum, roped off sections and signs warning you not to leave the path because of snakes. There is also lots of further rock art and rock shelters on two nearby hills to the north and south. As with other rock art sites that are tourist attractions, some of the petroglyphs have been vandalised by being scratched or painted in modern times so visitors can see them more easily. (Info from H-Fenton)

More information from Michelledubois:

Gobustan is very rich in archaeological monuments. The park has more than 6,000 rock engravings dating back between 5,000 - 40,000 years. The site also features the remains of inhabited caves, settlements and burials, all reflecting an intensive human use by the inhabitants of the area during the wet period that followed the last Ice Age, from the Upper Paleolithic to the Middle Ages.

Most of the rock engravings depict primitive men, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances in their hands, camel caravans, pictures of sun and stars.

The petroglyphs and rock engravings are an exceptional testimony to a way of life that has disappeared, graphic representations of activities connected with hunting and fishing at a time when the climate and vegetation of the area were warmer and wetter than today.

Iskhag Jafarzadeh who was one of the pioneers of Azerbaijan archaeology and ethnography, excavated over seventy artifacts on Azerbaijan's territory and studied the Gobustan rock paintings. In 1948 he discovered the Latin rock inscription near mountain Boyukdash, some 70 km far from Baku, which is the easternmost Roman evidence to be known.

In 2007 Gobustan was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site considered to be of "outstanding universal value" for the quality and density of its rock art engravings, for the substantial evidence the collection of rock art images presents for hunting, fauna, flora and lifestyles in pre-historic times and for the cultural continuity between prehistoric and medieval times that the site reflects.

Note: this is a GPS co-ordinate from just behind the museum.
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Gobustan Rock Art
Gobustan Rock Art submitted by Michelledubois : Gobustan, Azerbaijan (Vote or comment on this photo)

Gobustan Rock Art
Gobustan Rock Art submitted by h_fenton : Site in Azerbaijan: Gobustan, large panel of petroglyphs, depicting what look like horses 14 May 2008 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Gobustan Rock Art
Gobustan Rock Art submitted by Michelledubois : Latin marker located in Gobustan, Azerbaijan. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Gobustan Rock Art
Gobustan Rock Art submitted by h_fenton : Gobustan, Azerbaijan: large panel of petroglyphs depicting humans animals and a snake. 14 May 2008 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Gobustan Rock Art
Gobustan Rock Art submitted by Michelledubois : Gavel Dash, Gobustan National Park, Azerbaijan. Please see Gavel Dash's own page in The Megalithic Portal. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Gobustan Rock Art
Gobustan Rock Art submitted by kurgan : Ladies with Curved sticks - Gobustan Rock Art. Could this be a Stone Age ladies hockey club? It's most unlikely, however an explanation for the group of stick weilding ladies is called for. In petroglyphs else where men similarly carry curved sticks. These could be for hunting, or perhaps used in warfare...or possibly in a game. Bearing in mind ancient references to women warriors in the Cauc... (2 comments)

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 608m SE 133° The Gavel Dash* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
 2.3km SE 125° Gobustan* Ancient Village or Settlement
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