Materials from the Tash-Jargan settlements: preliminary research results (Kizil-Koba culture horizon)

Aim. To clarify the dates of the Kizil-Koba monuments of the Tash-Jargan locality and propose a preliminary hypothesis about the genesis of the Kizil-Koba culture.

Methodology. A preliminary analysis of the ceramics of Tash-Jargan settlements has been carried out. The comparative typological method is used to solve the problems of chronology.

Results. The chronology of Tash-Jargan settlements is determined within the framework of the 8^th – 7th centuries BC. Ceramics of settlements and its ornaments belong to the early Kizil-Koba culture. The ceramic complex of the early Kizil-Koba culture is not chronologically and genetically related to the monuments of the Late Bronze Age of the foothill Crimea. Thus, the beginning of the Kizil-Koba culture is synchronous with the pre-Scythian time. A hypothesis is proposed according to which the Kizil-Koba culture is genetically related to the culture of the "Cimmerians".

Research implications. The results of the study clarify the chronology and the problem of the genesis of the early Kizil-Koba culture.

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