Over the last twenty years, many new discoceries have been made as a result of archaeological surveys or during the huge public works at Tbilisi-Baku-Ceyhan in the course of pipeline construction through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey between 2003-2005. The construction was accompanied by a five-phase archaeological international project aiming to reach an understanding of landscape transformation over time. Within this framework, the NABIALLA Project is a new and original joint French-Azerbaijanese archaeological project which deals with two special topics: the excavation and study of the necropolises dated to the Bronze and Iron Ages from the Lenkoran and Lerik areas (Republic of Azerbaijan), and additionally, a re-examination of archaeological material formerly discovered and stored in public collections, either in Azerbaijan or abroad (especially in France). This project should result in the better understanding of the funerary practices i the region, end, moreover, in the possible discovery of traces of so far unknown ancient settlements in this region.