Böyük Kəsik

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Böyük Kəsik (formerly, V.İ.Lenin) is a village and municipality in the Aghstafa District of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,791.

Böyük Kəsik
Municipality
Böyük Kəsik
Coordinates: 41°23′18″N 45°11′22″E
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Aghstafa
Elevation	268 m (879 ft)
Population [citation needed]
• Total	1,791
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

Archaeology

An important Chalcolithic archaeological site is located near the village. It is known as Boyuk Kesik (Beyuk Kesik), and it is connected with the Leyla-Tepe culture ceramics going back to 4400-3900 BC. According to Catherine Marro (2022), Böyük Kesik represented an earlier development of the Leyla-Tepe culture, similar to the contemporary pottery of Ovçular Tepesi, another Leyla Tepe site located in the Kura basin.^[1]

Boyuk Kesik is located very close to Soyuqbulaq, Agstafa, another very important ancient site.^[2]

See also

• Galayeri
• Poylu, Agstafa

References

1. Marro, Catherine (2022-07-29). "The View from the North" (PDF). Paléorient (48–1). OpenEdition: 111–130. doi:10.4000/paleorient.1675. ISSN 0153-9345.
2. Boyuk Kesik (#4) among other archaeological sites on the map of Southern Caucasus during the Chalcolithic period. (Soyuq Bulaq is marked as #5). in Antoine Courcier, Bakhtiyar Jalilov, Idriss Aliyev, Farhad Guliyev, Moritz Jansen, Bertille Lyonnet, Nasib Mukhtarov, Najaf Museibli 2017, The ancient metallurgy in Azerbaijan from the end of the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (6th-3rd millennium BCE): an overview in the light of new discoveries and recent archaeometallurgical research.

• Böyük Kəsik at GEOnet Names Server