Mammadali Huseynov
Məmmədəli Hüseynov | |
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| Born | 3 April 1922 |
| Died | 5 July 1994 (aged 72) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ethnography |
| Institutions | National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR |
Mammadali Murad Oglu Huseynov (Azerbaijani: Məmmədəli Murad oğlu Hüseynov) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet archaeologist. In 1960, Huseynov carried out excavations in the valleys of the Quruchay and Kondalanchay Rivers, in Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan SSR. There, he discovered a fragment of the lower jaw of Homo erectus or Azykhantrop in multi-layer sites of the Paleolithic epoch in Azykh and Tağlar Cave.