Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Dr. Mark Iserlis, an employee at the German Institute of Archeology in Berlin, conducts various analyzes of ceramics in the territory of Azerbaijan of the Chalcolithic (Early IV millennium BC) on the basis of the "Maykop phenomenon of the North Caucasus: back to base”. For this purpose, he visited the Archaeological Foundation of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of ANAS and got acquainted with a number of rare and numerous collections.

Ceramic products discovered in ancient settlements of Leilatepe, Farmantepe and Alkhantepe, gathered in the scientific fund, have caused special interest of the German scientist. According to Dr. M.Isserli, there is an idea about the genetic relationships between the archeological cultures of Leylatepe and Maykop (North Caucasus, the beginning of the IV millennium BC) in science.

The leading researcher of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of ANAS, the head of the expedition on ancient settlement Polutapa, doctor of history Tufan Akhundov and the leading scientific worker of the institute, the head of the Karabakh neolith-eneolithic expedition, PhD in history Khagani Almammadov provide support to the German researcher.

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