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Study on the Settlement in the Taman Peninsula of the Bronze Age

А.В. Кияшко 1

1southern federal university / department of archaeology and history of ancient world

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Summary The Taman Peninsula (Taman) is located between two seas: the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea and it is extended towards the Crimean peninsula which is separated from the Kerch Strait. Due to this geographical position Taman has always been at the crossroads of trade routes and at the junction of ancient cultures and civilizations. There are some archeological sites of different periods in this area. The most ancient of them refer to the Paleolithic Age. But the constant and mass colonization of Taman has been fixed since the Bronze Age. Before the archeological excavations of 2015-2016, associated with the large-scale construction of railways and highways on the Taman peninsula, there had been only initial and prospecting data about most of the sites of the past. But excavations which were held in this period actually opened the Bronze Age of the Taman Peninsula. In this article it is going to be said about fully discovered settlement of the Bronze Age called Balka of Lisovitskogo which has the total square about 40000 м2. There were found two rows of dwellings elongated in the latitudinal direction on this site, where the stone bases remained. Inside of building complexes it is possible to allocate the areas for residential and commercial purposes and there are economic pits are suited near them. Large ceramic containers for storage of supplies, a variety of dining pottery decorated with the relief ornament were revealed there. It corresponds to the traditions of sabatinovskoy culture, which main sites are known in the northern Black Sea coast and the Crimea. The other found things made of clay, bone, bronze and stone support this cultural definition of settlement of Balka of Lisovitskogo. This site is also interesting because of found hoard of bronze items and a few clay figurines of animals. Finds of tools related to agriculture, tanks for storage of supplies combined with the collection of animal bones with a predominance of cattle indicates the settled agricultural way in the conjunction with the house cattle breeding. The settlement of Balka of Lisovitskogo, according to the treats of findings, had been existed during all period of sabatinovskoy culture and can be provisionally dated 16-13 centuries, BC. . The appearance of the sites of this culture on the Taman Peninsula is a discovery and shows the migration of carriers of this culture on the Taman from the Northern Black Sea region through the Crimean peninsula.

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