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Azerbaijan caves

The Azykh Cave is an impressive six-cave complex known as a living site of stone-age man. It lies about 3 km northeast of the village of Tugh in the Fizuli Region of Azerbaijan. Archaeologists have suggesed that the finds in the lowest layers of the cave are of a pre-Acheulean culture, one of the world's oldest (730,00-1,500,000 years)

300 000 years ago. Azyhantrop.Azykh cave.

UNESCO World Heritage.

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape covers three areas of a plateau of rocky boulders rising out of the semi-desert of central Azerbaijan, with an outstanding collection of more than 6,000 rock engravings bearing testimony to 40,000 years of rock art. 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. The site, which covers an area of 537 ha, is part of the larger protected Gobustan Reservation.

In 2007, UNESCO included the 'Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape' in the World Heritage list

VISIT OF UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL KOICHIRO MATSUURA TO AZERBAIJAN. FAMILIARIZATION WITH GOBUSTAN STATE HISTORICAL AND ARTISTIC RESERVE

True FalseTrue/False 1.Azerbaijan Caves are only in Baku.

True/False 2.There are only animal pictures in the Gobustan Rocks

True/False 3.Azykh cave is 10 000 years old.

True/False 4.The Gaval stone is a big stone.

True/False 5. Tourists don’t like to visit Gobustan.