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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">nsc</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Archaeology, Ethnology &amp; Anthropology of Eurasia</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1563-0110</issn><publisher><publisher-name>IAET SB RAS</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17746/1563-0110.2020.48.2.069-079</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">nsc-971</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ЭПОХА ПАЛЕОМЕТАЛЛА</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The Southeastern Sindica Frontier: The Raevskoye Fortiﬁed Settlement</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Malyshev</surname><given-names>A. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Dm. Ulyanova 19, Moscow, 117292</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">maa64@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Batchenko</surname><given-names>V. S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Dm. Ulyanova 19, Moscow, 117292</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">vik-batchenko@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2020</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>26</day><month>06</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>48</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>69</fpage><lpage>79</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Malyshev A.A., Batchenko V.S., 2020</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Malyshev A.A., Batchenko V.S.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Malyshev A.A., Batchenko V.S.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/971">https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/971</self-uri><abstract><p>The expansion of the Bosporan Kingdom (the interior colonization of Bosporus) was caused by the need for commercial grain in the Greek markets of the Mediterranean. The steep rise in the Bosporan rulers’ incomes followed the annexation of Sindica—one of the most fertile lands of the Northern Pontic region, situated in the Lower Kuban basin. This study discusses the history of the vast chora of the Greek Gorhippia in the southeastern fringes of Sindica, focusing on ﬁndings from a Bosporan fort—the Raevskoye fortiﬁed settlement. We reconstruct the evolution of the anthropogenic landscape of the area over four centuries (Hellenistic and Early Roman period). The chronology is based on a collection of Bosporan coins from the fortiﬁed settlement. We analyze the factors due to which the habitation layers of the fortiﬁed settlement span a period from the Early Bronze Age to the High Middle Ages. We provide a new topography of the Early Iron Age aboriginal site, along with that of the fortiﬁed site existing during the three Bosporan stages. Special attention is paid to the fortiﬁcation system, arranged in the Hellenistic period. Studies in recent decades have suggested that the fortiﬁcations were constructed according to the typical Bosporan technique of adobe-stone architecture. The fortiﬁed settlement evolved over a long period as an economic and political center of a large borderland zone between the Greek civilization and the archaic societies of the Caucasian piedmonta peculiar frontier of the classical era.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Bosporan Kingdom</kwd><kwd>contact area</kwd><kwd>fortiﬁcation</kwd><kwd>frontier</kwd><kwd>Hellenistic period</kwd><kwd>Early Roman period</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">This study was part of the “New Aspects in Studying Fortiﬁcation in the Asian Bosporus (4th century BC to 6th century AD): Discoveries, Research Methodologies, Visualization Capacities” Project of the “Monuments of Material and Spiritual Culture in the Modern Information Environment” (I.25) Sub-Program for Basic Research of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 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