Another Bronze Age hoard and settlement in Northwestern Crimea: preliminary report

The paper introduces into scientific discourse the Mamai Tyup hoard of weapons and implements and the Mamai Tyup-2 settlement of the Bronze Age that were previously unknown. The hoard was discovered incidentally around 10 years ago and currently is not accessible for direct studies. The appearance of the five hoard items that can be dated to the Late Bronze Age, specifically, to the Sabatinovka-Noua period was reconstructed based on available photographs. The hoard findspot revealed a type of settlement which is new for Northwestern Crimea, with small circular diversion ditches dug around seasonal dwellings and wider constructions of a so far unclear function identified by a magnetic survey. This settlement can be interpreted as a place of annual short-term camps of mobile herders in the Late Bronze Age.