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Gemikaya petroglyphs are located in Nabiyurdu, Camishölen, Garangush, Goller, Giz-Gelin hollow and other summer pasture on the southern and western slopes of the Kapıcık peak, which is located at an altitude of 3907 m above sea level, in Ordubad district of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The main area where rock petroglyphs are collected is the Garanguş pasture, which is located at an altitude of 3500-3700 m above sea level. Rock petroglyphs are in groups, mainly near water sources. Most of the petroglyphs are located in 5-6 groups around the Deli Bulak water source. According to the former Soviet concept, nomadic cattle breeding was thought to have originated in the Early Bronze Age, so the oldest examples of petroglyphs date back to this period, to the IV-III millennium BC. However, the archaeological research conducted in Nakhchivan confirms that in the Neolithic period, the second half of the 7th millennium BC all animals were domesticated and nomadic cattle breeding was formed. The similarity of some of the petroglyphs of Gemikaya with the pictures on ceramics belonging to the Neolithic period indicates that some of these petroglyphs belong to the Neolithic period. Some of the petroglyphs are similar to pictures on Chalcolithic ceramics. The drawings on the ceramics of the Kültepe I, Kültepe II, and Kızkale settlements allow us to determine the history of rock petroglyphs from the Early Bronze, Middle Bronze, and Late Bronze periods. Research suggests that the vast majority of rock petroglyphs were made in the Bronze Age. The study of rock petroglyphs allows us to say that people have an exhausted mythological imagination, and that mythological ideology was one of the main means of maintaining balance in society in ancient times.
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