Site-classificatie in het Džarylgač Survey Project (noordwestelijke Krim, Oekraïne)

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Site classification in the Džarylgač Survey Project (northwestern Crimea, Ukraine). This article is the third and final part of a series on the Džarylgač Survey Project (DSP), a landscape archaeology project in the northwestern Crimea that was conducted from 2006 to 2008 by the GIA and the Centre for Black Sea Studies (CBSS) of the University of Aarhus in Denmark. The objective of this project was to comprehend the wider agricultural colonisation of this area that took place in the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period. The first article (2008) gave an introduction to this research with preliminary results, and the second (2009) discussed the landscape classification. This final article focuses on site classification based on the results of the survey in relation to the landscape classification, and according to the primary periods of activity: the Bronze Age, the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period, and the Early Modern era. The types of sites range from settlements, small and large, simple or complex, to individual features either connected with settlements or in isolation. Such a classification of sites is a heuristic device which, when used with the landscape classification, should help to understand the varying use of the landscape and the balance between cultivation and pastoralism across the lowlands and the hillsides. Ultimately, however, the patterns observed can only properly be interpreted when brought into the broader context of the northwestern Crimea – this is the focus of an upcoming book publication on the DSP project.