title: The composition of church festive meals in a medieval Christian community in the southern Crimea, based on ceramics and faunal materials
abstract: This report presents the materials from the excavations of a medieval church located at the top of the Tuzluk Hill in the Yedi Evler area, Crimean peninsula, near the village of Semidvorie (Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine). The excavations were carried out by the Mountain-Crimean Archaeological Expedition (Crimean Branch of Archaeological Institute, NAS of Ukraine) in 2007. This church was linked to a large agricultural and pottery-producing settlement. It was in use from the first half of the 9th to t