Gobustan’s Petroglyphs And Yalli Dancers’ Amazing Musical Stone

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Petroglyphs and drawings in Gobustan are among the most ancient rock galleries in the world. They show many aspects of everyday life, customs, and traditions of ancient Azerbaijan and were created for thousands of years.

Stone Age rock carving in Azerbaijan identified by the ID. Image credit: Erdalturkoglu – CC BY-SA 4.0

It’s one of Gobustan’s most famous petroglyphs depicting dancers in Azerbaijan’s traditional Yalli dance, where participants form a circle or chain and dance holding hands or shoulders. They can be found in countless caves, and rock outcroppings surround the region of the south-eastern spur of the Great Caucasian Mountain Range, located only 60 km south of Baku, and they tell stories dating back to deep antiquity.

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