СРЕДНЕВЕКОВЫЙ ПАМЯТНИК ГОРЗУВИТЫНА ЮЖНОМ БЕРЕГУ КРЫМА:ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ 69 ЛЕТ СПУСТЯ

A. L. Yacobson was the first researcher to excavate the Gorzuvity site. Hediscovered ruins of a church with one nave and one apse overlaid by another church oflater date. A. L. Yacobson dated the lower church to the 6th–7th centuries and the churchbuilt over it to the 9th–10th centuries. Other excavated areas have revealed remains ofarchitectural constructions of unclear purpose as well as a cemetery with graveswithout grave goods. In 2017–2018 due to construction works in the Artek InternationalChildren’s Camp including the area excavated by A. L. Yacobson in 1951, the Instituteof Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, launched archaeological excavations.Church constructions were re-excavated, the settlement was examined and 24 burials,mostly, cist graves, were uncovered. Judging by funerary offerings, the cemetery becameoperational not later than the second half of the 7th – early 8th centuries; it was probablyused for a long time. During additional excavations in the western part of the nave in thelower church, a sepulchral vault containing around 20 buried individuals was discovered.A glazed cup dating to the middle – third quarter of the 13th century was found nearthe individual buried at the top, it can serve as a marker of the latest date of the vaultuse. Radiocarbon analysis and stable isotope analysis were carried out to establish thechronology of the earliest burial. These studies suggest that the sepulchral vault was notused before the 11th century. The upper church was built not earlier than the second half ofthe 13th century and, most likely, was used until the mid-14th century as indicated by a coinof Uzbeg khan found during the cleaning of the western wall of the upper church in 1951