Garakopaktapa
Middle Bronze Age settlement in Azerbaijan
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Garakopaktapa (Azerbaijani: Qaraköpəktəpə) is an ancient multilayer settlement[1] of the Middle Bronze Age epoch,[2] located in a basin of the Guruchay and Kondalanchay Rivers, near Fuzuli Rayon, Azerbaijan.[2]
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| Location | Fuzuli Rayon, Azerbaijan |
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| Type | Settlement |
| Completion date | Bronze Age |
The monument was discovered by Azerbaijani archaeologist Gudrat Ismayilov during 1961–1971 excavations.[2] Items of material culture of the Middle Bronze Age which began in Azerbaijan from the second half of the 3rd millennium BC were found out.[3] Various collected materials characterize the culture of the tribes lived in the Mil-Karabakh steppe during that period.[2]
Ismayilov ascribed the Garabulag kurgan cemetery located on the right coast of the Kondalan River and investigated in 1898 by Alexei Ivanovski, to this settlement.[2]