THE EVOLUTION OF SETTLEMENT SYSTEM IN THE PERIPHERAL AREAS OF THE ASIAN BOSPORUS (THE ABRAU PENINSULA)
Journal: Journal of historical philological and cultural studies
Year: 2018

The paper deals with the materials related to the anthropogenic landscape of the Abrau Peninsula in the Antique period, i.e. the South-Eastern periphery of the Asian Bosporus, located on the North-Western branches of the Greater Caucasus. The research led to the conclusion that highly fertile soils near Gorgippia were in demand during the Hellenistic period. A dense network of agricultural settlements in the South and East of Gorgippian chora evidences this. Vault tombs under the burial ground a