Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape spreads three regions of a level of rough rocks climbing out of the semi-betray of focal Azerbaijan, with an exceptional gathering of more than 6,000 rock engravings bearing confirmation to 40,000 years of rock workmanship. The site additionally offers the stays of possessed holes, settlements and entombments, all reflecting a serious human use by the tenants of the region throughout the wet period that emulated the last Ice Age, from the Upper Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. The site, which blankets a zone of 537 ha, is part of the bigger ensured Gobustan Reservation.
Gobustan has remarkable general worth for the quality and thickness of its shake craftsmanship engravings, for the significant confirmation the gathering of rock workmanship pictures shows for chasing, fauna, verdure and lifestyles in ancient times and for the social coherence between ancient and mediaeval times that the site reflects.
The rock engravings are a remarkable confirmation to a lifestyle that has vanished in the way they speak to so graphically exercises associated with chasing and angling during a period when the atmosphere and vegetation of the range were hotter and wetter than today.
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The most remote and undisturbed scenes are the Jinghirdag Moutain-Yazylytepe rise and Kichikdash Mountain. These zones need to be completely secured so as to guarantee they keep their credibility. The most went to site, Boyukdash, has more unsettling influences as establishments, for example a jail and stone quarry, which ought to be supervised as a major aspect of the Management Plan.The information of the site does not augment uniformly over the entire rock workmanship reservation. It might be alluring for an expansive scale review of the more extensive environment to be done to guarantee the degree of assurance required to guarantee the generally speaking uprightness of the rock symbolization corpus.
The lawful defensive measures for the property are sufficient. There is a need to finish the documentation, put set up animated protection measures and enhance the specialized skill of staff to do indispensable dire preservation work.
Starting revelations were made in 1939-40 and orderly investigations were directed by I. M. Djafarsade from 1947 onwards. He recorded and dissected more than 3,500 pictures on 750 rocks. This early stock was developed by R. Djafarguly who made further revelations and did unearthings.
Since 1965, unearthings have been completed in more than 20 ancient destinations and various Bronze Age structures have been ran across. Unearthings did by D. Rustamov of one surrender revealed a 2 m stratigraphy blanket 10,000 years. This material incorporated a fallen engraved part that gave an end risk quem for this human figure – in spite of the fact that no further items are given.