Tukezban Goyushova

Tukezban Goyushova (; 6 December 1972) is an archaeologist, PhD in History, associate Professor. Leading researcher of the department "Middle and Late Bronze Age Archaeology", the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of ANAS. Researcher of archaeological monuments, ancient necropolises, and cyclopean-type settlements — castles of the Western region of Azerbaijan, Gedebey.

Life

Tukezban Goyushova was born on December 6, 1972 in Baku, and finished secondary school No. 260 of Khatai district in 1989. In 1989-1994, she studied at the "Cultural and Educational Work" faculty of Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. Since 1995, she worked as a senior laboratory assistant in the Department of Archaeological Research in New Construction Areas at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of ANAS. In 2000 she was promoted to the position of junior researcher. In 2001 she was promoted to the position of research worker, and in 2012 she was promoted to the position of senior researcher. Since 2014, she has been a leading researcher in the "Archaeology of the Middle and Late Bronze Age" department. In 2010, having defended her dissertation entitled "Bronze Belts of Azerbaijan" she received the degree of PhD in history. In 2019, she was given the title of associate professor by the Higher Attestation Commission. She is the author of more than 50 scientific articles, 15 scientific reports, and 10 scientific works published abroad, including the monograph "Bronze Belts of Azerbaijan".

Family

Tukezban Goyushova is married and has a child. Tukezban Goyushova is also from the Goyushovs family, a well-known intellectual lineage of Karabakh.

Scientific career

Tukezban Goyushova has been leading the Gedabey archaeological expedition since 2008, and she is the only female expedition leader in Azerbaijan for the past 35 years. She has conducted archaeological research mainly in the cyclopean structures-fortresses of Gedabey (late Bronze-early Iron Age settlements), as well as in ancient necropolises. Her main research area is the Bronze Age archaeology of Azerbaijan, especially the study of the ancient roots of applied art of this period, the most striking example of which is the bronze belts with inscriptions on them. She has conducted large-scale archaeological research in the "Leshkar" and "Govdu" forts of Gedabey, and out of the 80 cyclopean structures in Gedabey, the fort, which was registered by Ishag Jafarzadeh as the Delme fort, was put into scientific circulation by Tukezban Goyushova under the name of the Leshkar fortress.

T.Goyushova is one of the best researchers of the Khojaly-Gedabey archaeological culture. She is the first researcher of the Daryurd stone box graves of Gedabey, the Leshkar, Govdu forts, as well as the archaeological monuments of the medieval fortresses of Koroglu and Giz Galasy, which have a place in the study of the Khojaly-Gedabey archaeological culture. In 2022, for the first time in the history of Azerbaijan, she conducted archaeological excavations at the medieval fortresses of Gedabey - Koroglu fortress in the village of Galakand and Namerdgala, located at a 7–8 km distance from the village of Soyudlu. Tukezban Goyushova played a great role in the discovery of ancient monuments dating back to the 14th-8th centuries BC in the villages of Shinikh and Goyelli in Gedebey, bordering Armenia. The monuments called Horukdash and Akhchachikhan are cyclonic monuments dating back to the late Bronze Age. Thousands of artifacts recovered from the excavations were transferred to the Gedabey Museum of History and Local Lore after scientific research, thereby significantly enriching the museum’s scientific fund.

T.Goyushova actively participated in archaeological research conducted in the areas covered by the pipelines during the construction of the Baku-Supsa pipeline in 1997-1998. Since 2000, she has worked as part of archaeological expeditions operating in Nakhchivan, Shamkir, Tovuz, Gedebey, Agstafa, Goranboy and other places.

In 2001, Tukezban Goyushova worked as part of the Azerbaijan-American international expedition under the leadership of Ilyas Babayev, and in 2007 and 2014, she worked as part of international expeditions (in Gedebey and Agstafa) that brought together specialists from the French National Center for Scientific Research.

International scientific activity

Since the beginning of her career, Tukezban Goyushova has represented Azerbaijan with her reports at international conferences held in many countries of the world. Many of her conferences are listed below:

She delivered reports at the international scientific conference "Archaeology and Ethnology of the Caucasus" in 2002 in Tbilisi: "History of the Study of Bronze Belts of the South Caucasus"; "Bronze Ornamental Belt Found in Mingachevir" at the international conference "Archaeology, Ethnology, Folklore of the Caucasus" held at Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences on December 15, 2005, in which, along with Russian and Georgian scientists and specialists, US archaeologists who participated in archaeological excavations along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline; In 2011, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the international scientific conference “Archaeology of Kazakhstan during the period of independence: results, prospects: dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the 20th anniversary of A.Kh.Margulan Institute of Archaeology made speech on the topic "Archaeological monuments of the Gedebey district (based on excavations carried out in 2008-2010)"; in 2012, participated in Gabala, at the international scientific conference "Ancient Urban Culture of Azerbaijan in the Context of World Urbanization" and made a report on the topic "Recent research conducted on cyclopean structures in the Gedabey district"; in 2013, made a report on the topic "Archaeology and ethnographic sciences of Azerbaijan during the years of independence", "History of research of archaeological monuments of the Gedabey region and recent research conducted in the region"; in 2015, in Gazakh, at the conference "Azerbaijani multiculturalism and Caucasian Albania" made a speech on the topic "Recent research conducted on cyclopean structures in the Gedabey region", "Archaeology and ethnographic sciences of Azerbaijan during the years of independence", "Recent research conducted on the topic "Archaeology and ethnography sciences of Azerbaijan during the years of independence", "Recent research conducted (Udyrs)" at the international conference on "Caucasian Albania and archaeological excavations"; "On a bronze belt found in Gedabey" at the international scientific conference "South Caucasus and steppe in the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age" dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Maria Nikolayevna Pogrebova, held in Moscow on April 25–27, 2016; "On a bronze belt found in Gedabey" at the international scientific conference on "Archaeological heritage of Karabakh" organized by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in the main building of ANAS on November 28, 2016; "Medieval archaeological monuments of Gedabey" at the V international "Hamza Nigari" symposium organized in the Guzanli settlement of Aghdam region on May 17–19, 2022.

Tukezban Goyushova will deliver lectures on "Medieval archaeological monuments of Gedabey" at Karabakh University, Ankara Haji Bayram Veli University, Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts on May 16–18, 2025 and participated in the VI International Travel and Tourism Dynamics Conference on "Cultural Heritage and Turkish Heritage" jointly organized by the relevant faculties of the University of Arts and the Azerbaijan Tourism and Management University.

Select publications

  • (2002) Bronze belts of Mingachevir
  • (2002) On the history of the study of bronze belts of the South Caucasus. International Scientific Conference. Archaeology, Ethnology and Folklore of the Caucasus
  • (2003) About archaeological research conducted in Julfa district in 2002
  • (2004) Bronze Belts in Museum Collections of Azerbaijan. International Scientific Conference
  • (2005) Bronze ornamented belt from Mingachevir. International Scientific Conference
  • (2005) Ornaments and plots on bronze belts from Azerbaijan and their parallels on the products of the Koban culture
  • (2006) Gadabay-Daryurd necropolis
  • (2007) Archaeological research conducted in Gadabay district in 2006
  • (2008) On the history of the study of Azerbaijani bronze belts.
  • (2008) About the Bronze Belt from Apsheron. International Scientific Conference
  • (2008) Archaeological excavations conducted in the territory of Shamkir region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Shamkir archaeological heritage history and architecture
  • (2008) Archaeological research in the Daryurd necropolis of Gadabay region
  • (2009) The Bronze Belts of Khojaly. History, Archaeology, Ethnography of Karabakh and the 3000th Anniversary of the City of Barda
  • (2009) Astral descriptions on bronze belts discovered in Azerbaijan
  • (2009) The description of fish in the fine arts of Azerbaijan. International Scientific Conference
  • (2010) Deer cult in Azerbaijan (based on Late Bronze – Early Iron Age materials)
  • (2010) Daryurd necropolis
  • (2010) Technology of manufacturing bronze belts in the Late Bronze Age of Azerbaijan
  • (2010) Govurgala is the ruin of the Albanian city. Ancient and medieval Azerbaijani cities: archaeological heritage, history and architecture
  • (2010) Archaeological research in Gadabay
  • (2010) Bronze belts of Azerbaijan. I Republican Innovative Ideas Fair of Young Scientists
  • (2011) Archaeological monuments of the Kedabek region (based on excavations in 2008-2010). Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • (2011) Geometric figures on bronze belts from Azerbaijan
  • (2012) Archaeological research in Gadabay
  • (2013) Archaeological research conducted in the Gadabay region
  • (2013) On the history of the study of archaeological monuments of the Gadabay region and the latest research in the region
  • (2012) Recent research conducted on Cyclopean structures in the Gadabay region
  • (2021) A new stage in the study of Khojaly-Gadabay cultural monuments: Results of recent research in Gadabay
  • (2025) The role of archaeologist scientist Gahraman Agayev in the study of archaeological monuments of the northeastern region of Azerbaijan.

See also

  • Leshkar Fortress