Böyük Kəsik (formerly, V.İ.Lenin) is a village and municipality in the
Aghstafa District
Aghstafa District () is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. Located in the northwest of the country, it belongs to the Gazakh-Tovuz Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Qazakh, Tovuz, as well as the Kakheti and Kvemo Kartl ...
of
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...
. It has a population of 1,791.
Archaeology
An important
Chalcolithic
The Chalcolithic ( ) (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. It followed the Neolithic and preceded the Bronze Age. It occurred at different periods in di ...
archaeological site is located near the village. It is known as Boyuk Kesik (Beyuk Kesik), and it is connected with the
Leyla-Tepe culture
The Leyla-Tepe culture () of the South Caucasus belongs to the Chalcolithic era. It got its name from the site in the Agdam District of modern-day Azerbaijan. Its settlements were distributed on the southern slopes of Central Caucasus, from 3800 u ...
ceramics going back to 4400-3900 BC. According to Catherine Marro (2022), Böyük Kesik represented an earlier development of the Leyla-Tepe culture, similar to the contemporary pottery of
Ovçular Tepesi
Ovçular Tepesi is an ancient settlement located at the northern end of Dizə, Sharur village in Sharur District of Azerbaijan, on the left bank of Arpa (river). It dates back to the fifth millennium BC, and continued to the third millenniums BC. ...
, another Leyla Tepe site located in the Kura basin.
Boyuk Kesik is located very close to
Soyuqbulaq, Agstafa
Soyuqbulaq (also, Soyuq Bulaq) is a village in the Agstafa Rayon of Azerbaijan. It forms part of the municipality of Köçvəlili.
In 2006, a French–Azerbaijani team discovered nine kurgans at the cemetery of Soyuqbulaq. They were dated to the ...
, another very important ancient site.
Boyuk Kesik (#4) among other archaeological sites on the map of Southern Caucasus during the Chalcolithic period.
(Soyuq Bulaq is marked as #5). in Antoine Courcier, Bakhtiyar Jalilov, Idriss Aliyev, Farhad Guliyev, Moritz Jansen, Bertille Lyonnet, Nasib Mukhtarov,
Najaf Museibli 2017
''The ancient metallurgy in Azerbaijan from the end of the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (6th-3rd millennium BCE): an overview in the light of new discoveries and recent archaeometallurgical research.''
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See also
* Galayeri
* Poylu, Agstafa
* Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway
The Baku–Tbilisi–Kars (BTK), or Baku–Tbilisi–Akhalkalaki–Kars railway (BTAK), is a railway connecting Azerbaijan, Georgia (country), Georgia and Turkey, which became operational on 30 October 2017 following several years of delays. The ...
References
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Populated places in Aghstafa District
Leyla-Tepe culture
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