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Обработка и исследование (статистика, планиграфия, стратиграфия, реконструкции различных видов и уровней, определение круга аналогий – компаративистика и т. д.) археологических, палеозоологических и естественнонаучных материалов из раскопок 1990-2003 гг. на уникальном многослойном поселении Мысхако I – Восточный холм, - наиболее крупном, информационно насыщенном и практически полностью исследованном поселенческом памятнике российского участка Черноморского побережья Кавказа.

In the course of the research work over the project processing of field documentation was fulfilled, as well as numerous collection of finds from the dwelling site Myskhako I, its lower layer dating from the Eneolithic (the late 5th – early 4th millennia BC) and the upper layer to the Classical antiquity (the 1st c. BC – 1st c. AD). The total number of investigated objects has reached over 13000 items, and the archaeozoological finds – over 11000 intact and fragmented bones. The investigation included typological, statistical, stratigraphic, planigraphic, and other scientific work. The most valuable results concern a series of subjects. Reconstruction of spatial structure of the Eneolithic settlement evidences fortification structures with wooden paling and stone wall foundation. Pottery classification, especially with regard to the stratigraphic characteristics of the early layer has revealed two consecutive stages in the Eneolithic culture of Meshoko type, and let determine its contacts with synchronous cultures of the Transcaucasus and the Pontic zone. Obtained radiocarbon dates confirm the pre-Maikop and generally late chronology of the sites of discussed type. Of special interest is reconstruction of the economic system of the population, which combined stock-breeding, hunting, and seashore gathering, as well as sea fishery (hunting dolphins with harpoon). Concerning the upper layer, the most important results have been obtained for resolving the problem of reconstruction of stages and main moments of the site’s existence: extending its area over the adjacent territories once used as cemeteries and then superimposed by the cultural deposit; repeated destructions by fires; building fortifications – defensive walls and a ditch on the late stage of the site’s functioning. New information was obtained for the characteristic of the interrelations between the Greeks and the Barbarians in the southern periphery of Bosporus Asiaticus. Presence of the aboriginal Maeotian population is evidenced, and some parallels established in their specific ritual practices with those spread among the later West Caucasian tribal groups.

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