title: ARCHEOZOOLOGICAL STUDIES OF VERKHNENOYBERSKOYE 1 SETTLEMENT
abstract: In 2022 and 2023, rescue excavations were conducted at the 17th–19th-century settlement of Verkhnenoyberskoye 1 in the Gudermes District of the Chechen Republic. The excavation area encompassed the settlement’s agricultural zone rather than its residential core, revealing seasonal structures used for processing agricultural products, furnace chambers, and clay extraction pits. This paper presents the findings of an archeozoological analysis of materials recovered from these excavations. The prim
journal: History Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus