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The earliest shelter caves dating to the late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods
are mainly located at the upper terraces of Mounts Beyukdash and Kichikdash. These
are Gaya Arasy, Firuz, Ana Zaga and Kaniza.
The cultural layers found hereby include not only the finds related to the Upper
Paleolithic, but Mesolithic, Neolithic and Eneolithic periods as well. The tools made
of stone, bones, obsidian, as well as remnants of extinct species of flora and fauna
provide an invaluable evidence for reconstruction of that-time geographic environment.
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human skeletons discovered at Firuz settlement are of a particular interest indeed.
Two of them are female remnants, one belonged to a child, whereas the rest are male.
Numerous stone tools found at this spot include impact (percussive) knives, so-called
nucleuses, edged chisels, knife plates, trapezoids, silicon chisels, arrowheads, notched
mini-plates, scrappers with indented sides and bits.
The lower terraces of Beyukdash, Kichikdash and Jyngyrdagh mounts feature the
settlements of the Bronze Age (such as Daire 1 and Daire 2) together with numerous
burial places and mounds. These settlements and burial mounds abound in skeletons,
and bones of extinct species. Several stones with petroglyphs together with other finds
of the Bronze Age and anthropomorphous grave stones were discovered as well.