Коллекция костяных изделий поселения позднего бронзового века Багай 1
Collection of Bone Artifacts from the Late Bronze Age Settlement Bagay 1

Summary/Abstract: In 2021—2022, the IA RAS expedition conducted excavations in the Northwestern Crimea in the vicinity of the village of Suvorovskoye (Saki district of the Republic of Crimea). The object of the study was the Late Bronze Age settlement of Bagay 1, its northern part, which falls within the construction zone of the Yevpatoria branch of the Tavrida highway. As a result of large–scale work on an area of over 1.38 hectares, objects characterizing the material and spiritual culture of the inhabitants of the settlement were discovered — residential and adjacent buildings for household purposes, pits, separate stone sketches, the remains of a stone box for storing food, three burials and an altar, which had a platform with an entrance consisting of two vertically dug-in cattle leg bones. Inside, there was the debris of a molded vessel surrounded by stones, and a cluster of teeth of a large ungulate.The collection of finds amounted to 1,166 items, of which 86 are bone products, the use-wear analysis of which is presented in the article.

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