Mammadali Huseynov

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Mammadali Murad Oglu Huseynov (

Mammadali Murad Oglu Huseynov was born on 3 April 1922, in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Qazakh District. After receiving his primary education, Huseynov graduated from the Faculty of History of the Azerbaijan State University in 1951. He then worked as a junior research worker at the Museum of History of Azerbaijan. In 1960, he successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Paleolithic Cave Dwellings on Aveydag Mountain" in Tiflis. From 1971 to 1994, he led a Stone Age department at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He served as the chairman of the Archaeology and Ethnography Department of Azerbaijan State University from 1976 to 1993. In the 1980s, he took the initiative to create a museum-office of Archaeology and Ethnography at the Academy. In 1987 he received the title of Professor. Huseynov died on 5 July 1994, at the age of 72 years.

Scientific activity

Mammadali Murad oglu Huseynov wrote six books and 100 research works. He is considered to be the founder of Paleolithic Age studies in Azerbaijani schools. In 1960, Huseynov carried out excavations in the valleys of the Quruchay and Kondalanchay Rivers, and in Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan SSR. He found multilayer sites from the Paleolithic epoch in Azykh (where he found a fragment of the lower jaw of Homo erectus or Azykhantrop) and Taglar Cave.^[3] The discovery of Quruchay culture in Karabakh by Huseynov and his colleagues and also the monument of Azikh cave, as well as ancient Palaeolithic monuments that were found in Kazakh, Nakhichevan, Lerik and other regions of the country proved that Azerbaijan was a territory of initial occupation. Although Quruchay culture was thought to date back to 1.5 million years ago, Huseynov, who discovered it, dated its formation to between 1.7 – 2.1 million years ago.

The cultural materials discovered in the caves of

• Archeology of Azerbaijan (The Stone Age), (1975)
• Ancient Paleolithic of Azerbaijan: Qarachay Culture and its Development Stages: 1,500,000–70,000 Ago. (1985)
• Paleolithic of Azerbaijan (in co-authorship with A.K.Jafarov), (1986)
• Zardabli, Ismail bey (2014). The History of Azerbaijan: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. LULU PRESS INC. p. 14.
  ISBN 978-1291971316
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• History of Azerbaijan
• Ishag Jafarzadeh

References

External links

• Zardabli, Ismail bey (2014). The History of Azerbaijan: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. LULU PRESS INC. p. 14.
  ISBN 978-1291971316
  .
• Gonen Sharon. Axe Age: Acheulian Tool-making from Quarry to Discard. London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2006, 514 p.