Farhad Guliyev


Farhad Guliyev is an Azerbaijani archaeologist, Doctor of Philosophy in History, Associate Professor. Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of ANAS, Corresponding Member of the German Institute of Archaeology.

Life

Guliyev was born on October 14, 1973 in Baku, and graduated from secondary school No. 18. While entering the evening department of the History Faculty of Baku State University, he was accepted as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of ANAS.
From 1990 to 1996, while continuing his studies at a higher educational institution, Guliyev took part in archaeological research conducted in various regions of the country, after graduating from higher education in 1996; he began to fully engage in scientific activities.
In 2003, at the Dissertation Council of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Guliyev defended his thesis on "Horse Breeding in Ancient Azerbaijan" with a degree in archaeology and in 2004 was awarded the degree of candidate of historical sciences, and in 2023 the Higher Attestation Commission awarded the academic title of Associate Professor.
In 2006, he was elected as the head of the "Scientific Exposition Department" of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of ANAS, in 2007-2020, he headed the International Archaeological Expedition of the Institute working in the Tovuz region, and in 2006-2013, he was the chairman of the "Young Scientists Council" of the Institute.
In June 2023, by the decision of the Presidium of ANAS, Guliyev was appointed Acting Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Ethnography and Anthropology. He served as the Director General from 2023 to February 2024. On February 21, 2024, he was elected as the Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the general meeting of the Department of Social Sciences of ANAS and on February 22, by the decision of the Presidium of ANAS, he was endorsed as the Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Scientific career

Farhad Guliyev has participated in a number of important scientific conferences to introduce the results of his research to the world scientific community over the past twenty years. He has delivered reports at international conferences and seminars held in Japan and England in 2010 and 2016, in France in 2011 and 2015, in the Republics of Georgia and Russia in 2011, 2019 and 2022, in Turkey in 2012, 2016, 2019 and 2022, and in Poland in 2012. The archaeologist, who has been active for more than 30 years, conducts research on the problems of the archaeological cultures of the most ancient period of Azerbaijan, the system of Near Eastern and Anatolian civilizations.
Since the beginning of construction work in the liberated territories in 2022, Guliyev has conducted excavations in the archaeological monuments of the region, and has turned the monument into an international research object to study the museum-mausoleum of Molla Panah Vagif in Shusha and reintroduce the ancient settlement of "Üzerliktepe" dating back to the 2nd millennium BC to the world scientific community.
Guliyev has involved in a number of important scientific conferences to introduce the results of his research to the world scientific community over the past twenty years. He has delivered reports at international conferences and seminars held in Japan and England in 2010 and 2016, in France in 2011 and 2015, in Georgia and Russia in 2011, 2019 and 2022, in Turkey in 2012-2016-2019-2022, and in Poland in 2012. The archaeologist, who has been active for more than 30 years, conducts research on the problems of the archaeological cultures of the most ancient period of Azerbaijan, the system of Near Eastern and Anatolian civilizations.
For the past twenty years, Guliyev has led an international expedition in the Ganja-Gazakh region, bringing together specialists from the University of Tokyo in Japan and the National Center for Scientific Research in France, working with Azerbaijani archaeologists.

Award

  • In 2017, he was awarded the "Scientist of the Year 2016" award within the framework of the "Most Deserving Scientist - A.L.A." grant competition of the Science Development Foundation under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Select publications

Recent Research on the Chalcolithic Period in Western AzerbaijanMetallurgy during the Middle Chalcolithic period in the Southern Caucasus: Insight through recent discoveries at Mentesh-Tepe, AzerbaijanA study of the effects of fire on a collective burial in the Early Bronze Age kourgan of Mentesh Tepe in AzerbaijanMenteştepe qedim yaşayiş yerinde arxeoloji tedqiqatlar Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe: Excavations of the earliest pottery Neolithic occupations on the middle Kura, Azerbaijan, 2012Excavations at the neolithic settlement of Göytepe, west Azerbaijan, 2010-2011Investigating cultural and socioeconomic change at the beginning of the Pottery Neolithic in the southern Caucasus: the 2013 excavations at Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe, AzerbaijanVegetation and plant exploitation at Mentesh Tepe, 6th–3rd millennium BC initial results of the archaeobotanical studyThe Kura projects: new research on the later prehistory of the southern CaucasusMentesh Tepe, a preliminary report on the 2012-2014 excavationsNeolithisation processes of the South Caucasus: As viewed from macro-botanical analyses at Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe, West AzerbaijanThe Mesolithic-Neolithic interface in the Southern Caucasus: 2016–2017 excavations at Damjili Cave, West AzerbaijanObsidian provenance analyses at Göytepe, Azerbaijan: Implications for understanding Neolithic socioeconomies in the southern CaucasusGenomic history of neolithic to bronze age Anatolia, northern Levant, and southern CaucasusStratigraphy and architecture in the main excavation area of GöytepeNeolithic Chipped Stone Industry of Mentesh Tepe Technological Markers and Relations to North-Eastern AnatoliaAgricultural Practices at Mentesh Tepe during the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age: An Overview from Sickle Elements and Botanical RemainsMouvements de populations dans le Sud-Caucase à la Protohistoire: apports de l’étude paléogénétique de Mentesh Tepe et Ovçular-tepesi
  • ''Recent Research on Uzerliktepe: A Middle Bronze Age Settlement in the Aghdam Region, Azerbaijan Republic''