Teshiktosh cave

Surkhandarya region has more than 500 cultural heritage sites. About 400 of them are archeological monuments, 30 architecture, 40 monumental art monuments and more than 30 attractions.

There are historic sites in the region that are proud of the city, where thousands of years of history, such as Baktriya, Takharistan, Chaganian, were formed. It was discovered during archaeological excavations in Teshiktash, Zarautsoy, Sopollitepa, Jarkutan, Kizilcha, Kuchuktepa, Holchaean, Fayoztepa and Dalvarzintepa.

The cave is located at the height of 1500 kilometers above sea level, in the Baysunov ridge in the east of Surkhandarya Province. The well-known archeologist Aleksey Pavlovich Okladnikov discovered the remains of the neanderthal boy from the cave in 1938-1939.

In our homeland, primitive people lived about 700,000 to 1.5 million years ago. The remains of the neanderthal bone, found in the Teshiktash cave, became a serious phenomenon in the world of science.

Scientists believe that the first primitive people (Neanderthals) lived in the Middle East and Europe about 100,000 years ago.

“Termiz oqshomi” gazetasi ma’lumotlari asosida Mastura Xamroyeva  tayyorladi