Asadulla Qudrat oghlu Jafarov (Azerbaijani: Əsədulla Qüdrət oğlu Cəfərov) is an Azerbaijani archaeologist and paleontologist, head of the "Stone Age Archeology" Department of the Institute of Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of ANAS,[1] Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor.

In 1980, for the monograph "Mousterian Culture of Azerbaijan" he was awarded the Komsomol Republican Prize in Science and Technology.

In 2001, at an international conference held in Tautavel (France),[3] he was elected as the coordinator of the INTAS-2000 program for Azerbaijan and received a grant.

In 2015, by the decision of the European Publishing House Award Commission, I was awarded the prize for my contribution to the protection of our national and spiritual values, active intellectual position in society, successful scientific research in the field of studying the ancient history of Karabakh, the paleolithic sites of Azykh, Taghlar, Gazma at the level of modern requirements of archaeological science, my numerous scientific and journalistic works.

For more than 50 years of work at ANAS, Asadulla Jafarov wrote 8 books, 142 scientific articles and more than 100 scientific and journalistic articles on various stages of the development of the history of the Stone Age and the primitive communal system of Azerbaijan, the Caucasus and Europe.