Growing, Storing, and Processing Cereals in the Inkerman Valley in Crimea at the Turn of the Bronze Age to the Iron Age
Journal: European Journal of Archaeology
Year: 2025

This article concerns the economy of one of the few fortified settlements of the Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age on the northern coast of the Black Sea, the Uch-Bash settlement, and its satellite settlement, Sakharna Holovka, in the Inkerman Valley in south-western Crimea. Archaeological excavations from the 1950s onwards have yielded much information on the cultivation of plants from the settlement, including charred grains and their impressions on pottery, tools for harvesting and processing th