Career
In 1960, Huseynov carried out excavations in valleys of the Quruchay and Kondalanchay Rivers, in Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and found out multilayer sites of the Paleolithic epoch in Azykh (where he found out a fragment of lower jaw of Homo erectus or Azykhantrop) and Tağlar Cave. He was the author of 6 books and 100 research works, Doctor of History and Professor (1987). From 1971 to 1994, he led a “Stone Age” department of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
And from 1976 to 1993, he was chairman of Archeology and Ethnography department of Baku State University.