Soyuqbulaq, Agstafa

Soyuqbulaq is a village in Agstafa Rayon, Azerbaijan, where a French-Azerbaijani team discovered nine kurgans dating to the beginning of the 4th millennium BC, making it the oldest kurgan cemetery in Transcaucasia [1]. The site is associated with the Leilatepe archaeological culture, believed to have originated from Near Eastern Ubaid culture migrations to the South Caucasus [1]. The kurgans share a northwest-to-southeast grave alignment with Maikop Culture burials to the north [1]. Notably, the earliest evidence of silver use in the Caucasus was attested at Soyuqbulaq [1].