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Dating of petroglyphs discovered in Azerbaijan is rather approximate and based on
various concomitant circumstances. Normally, rock carvings depicting women profiles
and wild oxen are viewed as the earlier ones. Images of extinct animals may serve as
chronologic benchmarks in cases when there is a possibility to reconstruct paleo-
ecology (E.P.Frankfor, E.Jackobson, 2004).
The most recent research shed new light on the estimated age of the rock carvings in
Azerbaijan. Pursuant to the most cutting-edge AMS dating technologies, the earliest
human habitation traces in Gobustan are 14,5 thousand years old.