THE LIVENTSOVSKAYA AND KARATAEVSKAYA FORTRESSES: LINES OF SYNCHRONISATION WITH MONUMENTS OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS AND THE NORTHERN BLACK SEA COAST
Journal: Kavkazologiya
Year: 2023

The article presents the result of a comparative analysis of the materials of the kamensko-liventsovskaya group of monuments the final of Middle Bronze Age. The discovery of Liven-tsovskaya and Karataevskaya fortresses in the lower reaches of the Don in the 1960s by S.N. Bratchenko allowed a new look at the antiquities of the final of Middle Bronze Age. The two forti-fications, situated on the right bank of the Mertvyi Donets river, are a single defensive complex. When comparing the Lower Don fo