ArmInfo. On 24 November Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan received a group of scientists who were carrying out researches and excavations in the Azokh cave of the NKR Hadrout region, the press- service of Artsakh President informs.
For active participation in conducting archeological excavations in the Azokh cave, authoring the book entitled "Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor" and presenting it to international scientific fora Levon Yepiskoposyan (Republic of Armenia), Peter Andrews, Tania King (United Kingdom), John Murray (Ireland) and Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo (Spain) were awarded with the "Vachagan Barepasht" medal.
President Sahakyan underlined that their researches had great scientific significance for studying human evolution expressing gratitude for the carried out work.
To recall, the Azokh Cave is a six-cave complex known as a living site of stone-age man. It lies near to the village of Azokh in Nagorno-Karabakh. The cave is considered to be the site of one of the most ancient proto-human habitations in Eurasia. It was discovered in 1960 and research started in 2001.