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The lack of field studies outcome on ancient wineries and land plots under vineyards in the Kerch Peninsula puts on agenda a higher demand for new data, which is essential for understanding viticulture development of the European Bosporus throughout 4th c. BC ? 3rd ?. AD. The geoarchaeological approach, with the involvement of the natural sciences resources (pedology, geochemistry, palaeobotany), was used to study the soil within the archaeological complex (10 km west of Pantikapaion (modern Kerch)) dated 4th ? 3r...

The period of Greek colonisation and economic land development in the northern Black Sea coast stimulated an active transfer of agricultural technologies of subtropical farming from Asia Minor to the sub-Mediterranean region of the South-West of Crimea starting in late 5 c. BC. This determined the formation of the original land management system, the practice of soul cultivation for perennial plantations, and adaptive crop production within the area of about 10 thousand ha, which largely characterises Tauric Chers...

The quality of products in regions that specialize in viticulture and horticulture depends on many environmental factors, but the importance of the concentrations of trace ele-ments in the rhizosphere is no less important than the main elements of mineral nutri-tion. Viticulture in ancient times played a different role in the economy of Tauric Cher-sonesos at the near chora (on the Herakleian Peninsula (South-West Crimea)) and at the distant chora (in North-Western (NW) Crimea). Modern climatic and soil-lithologic...

In regions with complex geological history, diversity of climate, soils and parent rocks, it is possible to predict a large number of paths for soils recovery in the areas that have been disturbed by human activity. The purpose of this work was to identify territorial difference of rocks within the Crimean Peninsula basing on the content of the trace elements and macroelements, assessment of potential suitability of disturbed rocks of various age and chemical composition for efficient pedogenesis during implementa...