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    Dashkasan, AZ1619
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One group of the barrows related to the middle Bronze Age settle in Dashkasan district, Chachbulaq summer pastures in mountains. The barrow N1 in Chachbulaq is settled on the left shore of the Qoshqar River, in east direction from the modern graveyard of Zagali village. The height of the round shaped barrow is 0.75 ms; the diameter in the north-south direction is 11. 5 ms and in the east-west direction – 10 meters. The basic grave of the barrow had been related to early Bronze Age. A hemisphere shaped handle jug and beads made of bone have been found here. Two graves found in the 1.7 and 1.45 meters depth in the land cover of the barrow relate to the middle Bronze Age. The form of the grave made in the ground was not defined. The skeleton in the first grave has rotted completely. A man had been buried in a folded state in the direction form north-west to south-east. Bones of a cattle animal, tree coal were found near the foot side of the skeleton. Patterned black, brown, pink clay plates decorated with scratched ornament, stone mace, spear tip, obsidian and miner arrow tips, bronze dagger have been found around the skull. A man had been buried in a folded state in the direction form north-west to south-east. The skeleton has rotted completely. Bones of a sheep were found near the foot side of the skeleton. The animal skeleton was between coal remainders. There were pieces of clay plate between the skeletons of man and animal. Three barrows have been investigated in the Chachbulaq summer pasture in mountains, in a place called "Hamamduzu" in 1959; two of them relate to middle Bronze Age. The form of the first barrow was round, the diameter was 8.6; the height was 0.6 meters. This grave cell had been found in the south side of the barrow. When the cover stone was removed, obsidian pieces and coal remainders were found. The measures of the grave under the barrow are 2.9 x 1.3 x 0.8 meters. The direction of the grave cell was from the north-west to the south-east. Because skeleton remained in a quite bad condition, only chin and teeth were revealed. Different beads and hair spirals, 16 black and grey colored clay plates have been revealed from the grave. According to the revealed materials, the barrow had been related to the middle of II millennium BC. Four-stringed 33 sm long bayonet kind of spear had been found from the second basic grave of the barrow. Archaeologist H.P.Kesemenli compared this spear with analogous spears found from Transcaucasia and Asia Minor and related them to the end of III millennium BC. The other barrow related to the middle of Bronze Age was discovered during the investigation in Chachbulaq in 1962. The same barrow was settled near the previous one. The height of the barrow is 1.8, the diameter is 15 meters. Its cover had been built from river stones. On the south-east side black land layer, bronze spear tips, silver button and black colored clay plate pieces had been revealed under the barrow cover. The length of the grave cell was 1. 6 ms; the width was 0. 9 ms; the depth was 0.8 meters. Grave cell where have directed form north-west to south-east; it had been filled with black ground. No skeleton and burial equipment were found in this grave except an earring. This barrow is related to XVI-XV centuries BC.Veli Bakhishaliyev Azerbaijan archeology

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