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 different aspects of everyday life, customs, and traditions of ancient Azerbaijan and were created over a span of thousands of years.

Rock engravings in Gobustán dating back 10,000 years ago. It’s one of Gobustan’s most famous petroglyphs depicting dancers taking part in Azerbaijan’s traditional Yalli dance, where participants form a circle or chain and dance holding hands or shoulders. Source

It’s one of Gobustan’s most famous petroglyphs depicting dancers taking part 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.

The petroglyphs of Gobustan attest to great creativity, complexity, and diversity of primitive man (perhaps shepherds, fishermen) who once inhabited the Caspian land that is considered by many as one of the cradles of civilization and its history goes backs millennia.

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