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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...