Complexe ale epocii bronzului târziu din situl Căplani I-La Yurt din nord-estul stepei Bugeacului
Late Bronze Age complexes of the Căplani I-La Yurt settlement in the North-East of the Budjak steppe

Summary/Abstract: In 2008, one team of the Center for Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova carried out archaeological research approximately the village Căplani; Ștefan-Vodă district, of the Republic of Moldova, in the North-Eastern part of the Budjak steppe. This point is located on the right bank of the Lower Dniester. The local toponym is La Yurt. The purpose of the expedition was to protect the study of archeological monuments located in the reconstruction zone of an artificial pond-reservoir and objects partially destroyed because of plantation plowing. The area of the settlement La Yurt was 250×500m. Because of archaeological excavations, a residential building and a sanctuary of the late Bronze Age were investigated. The shape and design features of the dwelling, investigated at the settlement of CăplaniI-La Yurt have analogies with the dugouts of the late Sabatinovka-early Belozerka culture of the North-Western Black Sea region. The excavation materials date back to the XIIIth-XIIth centuries BC. In addition to excavations of a residential building, a sanctuary was explored, which was a stone-earth structure 0.85 m high, 12.5 m in diameter. According to the design features, the number and composition of the offerings found under the backfill, this structure is most likely a stone analogue of ash pans. Details such as the use of fire, the presence of a large amount of various ceramics, human bones, and animal bones indirectly coincide with the composition of artifacts usually located under the mounds of ash pans of the NouaSabatinovka-Coslodjeni cultural massif. At the same time, in the ceramic complex there are features inherent both in the culture of Sabatinovka and in the culture of Belozerka and Early Hallstatt.

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