Pages: 417-439 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp262417439
In 2021—2022, the IA RAS expedition conducted excavations in the Northwestern Crimea in the vicinity of the village of Suvorovskoye (Saki district of the Republic of Crimea). The object of the study was the Late Bronze Age settlement of Bagay 1, its northern part, which falls within the construction zone of the Yevpatoria branch of the Tavrida highway. As a result of large–scale work on an area of over 1.38 hectares, objects characterizing the material and spiritual culture of the inhabitants of the settlement were discovered — residential and adjacent buildings for household purposes, pits, separate stone sketches, the remains of a stone box for storing food, three burials and an altar, which had a platform with an entrance consisting of two vertically dug-in cattle leg bones. Inside, there was the debris of a molded vessel surrounded by stones, and a cluster of teeth of a large ungulate.
The collection of finds amounted to 1,166 items, of which 98 are bone products, the use-wear analysis of which is presented in the article.
Keywords: settlement, bone products, tools, astragalus
Information about authors:
Аnatolii Usachuk (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-1028-1884
Andrei Goroshnikov (Moscow, Russian Federation). Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-5148-1559
Zoya Goroshnikova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Philosophical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-4084-6951
Roman Mimokhod (Moscow, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-4584-4747