Houses at the settlements of the Northwestern Crimea in the second quarter of the 1st - early 2nd centuries AD

The intention of this paper is to identify layout plans of Late Scythian houses which were built in the northwestern Crimea in the second quarter of the 1st - early 2nd centuries AD. There are three variants of such layout plans. The first plan, which is U-shaped, was used in house I in Kalos Limen (Fig. 2). It shows continuity of construction traditions. The two other variants of the houses have not been found in the Late Scythian northwestern Crimea before. The first of these variants known as Tarpanchi is characterized by location of rooms in two rows along one of the sides of the court (Fig. 1, Tar; Fig. 3. KL-II, KL-III). One more variant has been singled out for the purpose of discussion, these are poorly preserved houses characterized by one or several large elongated rooms (Fig. 1, KT-7; Fig. 4. YuD-B (P. I), KL-V, KL-VI). Some elements of the Tarpanchi layout plan were used in the plans of earlier dwellings in the northwestern Crimea; however, its borrowing cannot be excluded as the appearance of this plan coincides with other novelties in the material culture of Crimean Scythia. These novelties are linked to arrival of the Sarmatians and Bosporus influence.