The Chronology of the Rock-Cut Wine-Presses in the South-Western Taurica in Modern Scholarship
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2023

In the south-western area of Taurica, there are more than 230 stationary rock-cut wine-presses. From the moment when F. Dubois de Montpereux discovered them in the early 1830s, they became the subject of particular research. These production facilities for the primary processing of grapes testify to the agricultural specialization of the local population in the early Middle Ages. In the 1970s, the Soviet scholarship developed the “Khazar” interpretation of the origins and dating of the said wine